Great vistas of history opened, and she and
her aunt were near reverting to the primitive and passionate and entirely
indecorous arboreal—were swinging from branches by the arms, and really
going on quite dreadfully—when their arrival at the Palsworthys’ happily
checked this play of fancy, and brought Ann Veronica back to the exigencies of
the wrappered life again. What he needed was not a food
but a flavour; and the cocoanut taste of the chestnuts soothed his burning tongue
and throat. It was a moment or two before Gerald, opening his eyes on the girl’s
astounded expression, recollected himself sufficiently to pull out of the
extraordinary impact she’d had on him. It distressed and confused her that the girl should not come to her. ‘Maybe not,’ Gerald conceded, ‘but I’m damned if I herald my approach with
a lot of unnecessary blundering about in the dark. Their journey had made them indolent, the afternoon was warm, and it
seemed impossible to breathe a sweeter air. ”
Anna sat back in her cab, but found it remain stationary. The
starling, on which the carpenter stood, was the fourth from the Surrey shore. “See you to-night, I suppose?”
He sauntered off.
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