Somehow or
other his reputation as a hardened and unassailable bachelor had won for him
during the last few years a comparative immunity from attentions on the part of
those women with whom he had been brought into contact. But it annoyed
Ann Veronica. The door opened. She felt that
perhaps, in her desire to play an adequate part in the conversation, she had talked
rather more freely than she ought to have done, and given him a wrong
impression of herself. The dusky obscurity of the
room was twice welcome. Part 4
Then one evening Ann Veronica went with Miss Miniver into the back seats
of the gallery at Essex Hall, and heard and saw the giant leaders of the Fabian
Society who are re-making the world: Bernard Shaw and Toomer and Doctor
Tumpany and Wilkins the author, all displayed upon a platform. ’
‘Some of them more pleasurable than others, I take it. Disappointed in their hopes of the restoration of the fallen dynasty after the
death of Anne, the adherents of the Chevalier de Saint George endeavoured, by
sowing the seeds of dissension far and wide, to produce a general insurrection in
his favour. ”
He stood looking at the preparations before them with an unusual preoccupation
of manner, then roused himself to take her jacket, a little awkwardly, and hand it
to the waiter who hung it in the corner of the room.
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