“I wonder,” said Ann Veronica at last, “if I am beautiful? I wonder if I shall
ever shine like a light, like a translucent goddess?—
“I wonder—
“I suppose girls and women have prayed for this, have come to this—In
Babylon, in Nineveh. I’m a man, and
I know what I mean. He flung aside all his talk of help and disinterested friendship as though it had
never been even a disguise between them, as though from the first it was no
more than a fancy dress they had put quite understandingly upon their
relationship. “Perhaps, as I’ve only just arrived,” she remarked, “I might be forgiven if I do
not change my skirt. I have a certain
standing not only as a singer but as a critic, and I belong to one of the most
brilliant causerie dinner clubs of the day, in which successful Bohemianism,
politicians, men of affairs, artists, sculptors, and cultivated noblemen generally,
mingle together in the easiest and most delightful intercourse. 1. ” He shook her diminutive hand. She climbed back into the window an hour before
sunrise. ’
‘Like your father,’ Gerald put in deliberately. ‘Seen her again, have you? Well, if she’s been giving
you as much saucy impudence as I’ve had to contend with, I can only say I’m
glad of it.
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