He was astonished. “Think of what Lady Palsworthy will say! Think of what”—So-and-so
—“will say! What are we to tell people?
“Besides, what am I to tell your father?”
At first it had not been at all clear to Ann Veronica that she would refuse to
return home; she had had some dream of a capitulation that should leave her an
enlarged and defined freedom, but as her aunt put this aspect and that of her
flight to her, as she wandered illogically and inconsistently from one urgent
consideration to another, as she mingled assurances and aspects and emotions, it
became clearer and clearer to the girl that there could be little or no change in the
position of things if she returned. I've engaged to watch over you as a son,
and I will do so as far as I'm able; but if you neglect my advice, what chance
have I of benefitting you? On one point I've made up my mind—you shall either
obey me, or leave me. “No. And now, my
angel, that I am acquainted with your sentiments on this subject, I shall readily
fulfil a promise which I made to your lamented parent, whose loss I shall ever
deplore. “I was frightened then,” she declared. I
should feel that I had been obliged to find some one else to fight my battles for
me.
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