CHAPTER XXVIII. ‘Couldn’t even trouble to make a pretence of
motherhood. She changed her mind that day, as her mother Marina
had predicted. They had asked her to come to the first of the two great
annual Fadden Dances, the October one, and Ann Veronica had accepted with
enthusiasm. ”
Chapter XIV
“THIS IS MY WIFE”
Anna, notwithstanding her momentary fright in the middle of the day, was in
high spirits. Gianfrancesco was not ugly, in fact,
perhaps he was rather handsome after all. "
With no little effort—for the right words had a way of tumbling back out of
reach—he marshalled his phrases, and as he uttered them, closed his eyes to
lessen the possibility of a break. You'll
never be guided by me—never!"
"Indeed, my love, you're entirely mistaken," returned the carpenter,
endeavouring to deprecate his wife's rising resentment by the softest looks, and
the meekest deportment. “What if you get pregnant?” His worry came to a
quick fruition. It is perfectly intrusive of me, and I quite see that you must
be sick to death of running into such an interfering busybody all the time. ‘But he must have—’
‘Nicholas Charvill never did anything he must do,’ Mrs Sindlesham said
evenly.
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