Oh, don't
worry. He led
her unerringly, pushing her down the narrow stairway that had been the servants’
access to the upper floors, and thence through a small door that led into the
chapel. She became at times an embodiment for Ann Veronica
of all that made the suffrage movement defective and unsatisfying. Perhaps Ramage was the
more astonished. . But Jack
speedily burst it open with the iron bar. He succeeded so well that they were almost in Montague Street before Anna
stopped short. Wood," said she, in the deep, hoarse accents of
consumption; "and may God Almighty bless and reward you for your kindness!
You were always the best of masters to my poor husband; and now you've
proved the best of friends to his widow and orphan boy. “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.
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