She
refrained. She watched the people and hummed softly to herself. ‘She hasn’t said so, but I presume Valade had got hold of all the useful
papers,’ Gerald went on. Mind, when we were all growed up, it were
different. She was working very steadily
at the Advanced Course in Comparative Anatomy, wonderfully relieved to have
her mind engaged upon one methodically developing theme in the place of the
discursive uncertainties of the previous two months, and doing her utmost to
keep right in the back of her mind and out of sight the facts, firstly, that she had
achieved this haven of satisfactory activity by incurring a debt to Ramage of
forty pounds, and, secondly, that her present position was necessarily temporary
and her outlook quite uncertain. “I think we have,” he answered, gravely, and took her in his arms, and
smoothed her hair from her forehead, and very tenderly kissed her lips. There was no one at all in this room, but through the half-open door of
one of the small apartments that gave upon it she had a glimpse of two very
young girls sitting at a littered table and writing briskly. ”
“Delusion!” he muttered, glaring at her. She so wanted
to keep her memory of him fresh, so wanted to memorize
his kisses and to conjure his embrace someday when he
was mere dust in the ground. ” He said flatly. "He is all alone. ”
Even in the glamour of Miss Brett’s assurance it seemed to Ann Veronica that
this was, after all, no more than the gospel of Miss Miniver with a new set of
resonances.
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