On the contrary. His treatment of his wife is most unsatisfactory. Yet through these talks, these meetings and conferences, these movements and
efforts, Ann Veronica, for all that she went with her friend, and at times
applauded with her enthusiastically, yet went nevertheless with eyes that grew
more and more puzzled, and fine eyebrows more and more disposed to knit. ’
Lucilla Froxfield laughed gaily. He rose deliberately
to his feet and confronted them. “I should make sure that he
doesn’t try to drive himself home. But seriously
——”
“Well seriously?”
“Isn’t it your own fault a little? Why do you not tell me your address, and allow
me to call upon you. “But why, Lucy? Who is it
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that you are trying to hide from? John?”
Lucy closed her eyes in earnest. “I’m not coarse—no! But I’ve got no purity of mind—no real purity of mind. Her defence ceased rapidly to be in any
sense ladylike, and became vigorous and effective; a strand of black hair that had
escaped its hairpins came athwart Ramage’s eyes, and then the knuckles of a
small but very hardly clinched fist had thrust itself with extreme effectiveness
and painfulness under his jawbone and ear. But—it’s one of the things I’ve
just been thinking over.
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