He had reacted by pushing her
away, disgust and frustration on his face. If the young ladies were
dowerless, which seemed likely, their attire at least—so Lucilla assured him in a
whisper—was of the first stare. But what did he know beyond these facts? Nothing, clearly. ‘Now see here, missie. I kept them on myself till the sight of your empty
chair and the chill loneliness of it all nearly sent me mad. ’ But I
made sure it was you. Yes, yes; that was all very well in ordinary cases; but yonder was a soul in
travail, if ever she had seen one. It was
not only that her father had said all sorts of inconsistent and unreasonable things,
but that by some incomprehensible infection she herself had replied in the same
vein. Side by side with the cheese
(its never-failing accompaniment, in all seasons, at the carpenter's board) came a
tankard of swig, and a toast. She said she hoped she had not distressed him by
the course she had felt obliged to take, and he told her not to be a fool. “Why on earth,” he asked, “did you hurt me like that?”
Ann Veronica did her best to think she had not deliberately attempted to cause
him pain. “I think that you are very dense. You won’t want to be late the first evening, and it’s ten
minutes past seven now. About many of these houses hung a mysterious taint as of something weakly
and commonly and dustily evil; the women who negotiated the rooms looked out
through a friendly manner as though it was a mask, with hard, defiant eyes.
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