He looked at Annabel, whose face was buried in her hands—
he looked back at Anna, who was regarding him with an easy composure which
secretly irritated him. “I think, aunt,” she said, “you might trust to my self-respect to keep me
out of that. She had need of a devoted
cavalier and Jack had proved eminently valuable. “My
God!” he said again. The ambitions of his life, and they were many, seemed to
lie far away, broken up dreams in some outside world where the way was rough
and the sky always grey. It was she——
Anna’s nerves were not easily shaken, but she found herself suddenly clutching
at the table for support. From this spot a road, more resembling
the drive through a park than a public thoroughfare, led him gradually to the
brow of Dollis Hill. Don’t be frightened, dear. Presently.
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