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Part 6
Capes lit things wonderfully for Ann Veronica all that afternoon, he was so
friendly, so palpably interested in her, and glad to have her back with him. ”
He gave the note to the parlormaid the next morning in an inadvertent, casual
manner just as he was leaving the house to catch his London train. "Oh! nothin' partickler—mere curossity," replied Terence. I do not command the services of a person who will not tell me why he
offers them. The tapstress was full of curiosity;
but she appeared more easy than the others. For
he come after her, did Mr Charvill. You'd be coming up to Hong-Kong, but you'd
be cutting out Canton. Apart from everything else, this meeting of ours is a breach of a good
rule. The floor was strewn
with screws, nails, fragments of wood and stone, and across the passage lay the
heavy iron fillet. Stanley?”
“I’ve fallen out with my father. “That,” she answered, “is far easier to believe. She had begun to care about
her appearance again, looking into the glass he gave her, a
thing nearly priceless that was bordered in intricate
golden filigree and rubies. ”
Even in the glamour of Miss Brett’s assurance it seemed to Ann Veronica that
this was, after all, no more than the gospel of Miss Miniver with a new set of
resonances. Where her
husband saw only two youngsters in the mating mood, she felt that tragedy in
some phase lurked in this room—if only in the loneliness of these two, without
kith or kin apparently, thousands of miles from home.
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