But tell me," he
added with much anxiety, "has nothing been heard of Thames since the night of
my former escape?"
"Nothing whatever," answered Winifred. He smothered a laugh. But in the train going home her aunt reasoned it out. Why open my mouth if there might not be a need for it when
all’s said?’
Melusine acknowledged the logic of this. His
technique had gained much subtlety over the years. Miss Stanley had determined from the
outset to have the warmest affection for her youngest niece and to be a second
mother in her life—a second and a better one; but she had found much to battle
with, and there was much in herself that Ann Veronica failed to understand. She read voraciously, and presently, because of her aunt’s censorship, she
took to smuggling any books she thought might be prohibited instead of bringing
them home openly, and she went to the theatre whenever she could produce an
acceptable friend to accompany her. —I'll give him the edication of a prig,—teach him the use
of his forks betimes,—and make him, in the end, as clever a cracksman as his
father.
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