To escape one phase of loneliness she had plunged into another, so vast that
her courage sometimes faltered. The summer arrived, speeding the
Plague and with it the famine in the streets. ToC
That night Jack walked to Paddington, and took up his quarters at a small tavern,
called the Wheat-sheaf, near the green. The aspect of the place, so far as he
could discern through the gloom, was strange to him; but chancing to raise his
eyes above the level of the surrounding habitations, he beheld, relieved against
the sombre sky, the tall steeple of Saint Giles's church, the precursor of the
present structure, which was not erected till some fifteen years later. “I’d chuck this lark right off if I were you, Vee,” he said. “You could have told me about it, Michelle. ’
She saw suspicion darken his gaze. "
"No more of this," interrupted Thames, "you make the matter worse by these
excuses. “Suppose you call me by my proper name,” she said quietly. ’
‘Yes, indeed,’ agreed Lucilla enthusiastically. Like the flaws of an old marble. His sword-arm fell
useless at his side and she knew herself safe. He was struck disagreeably by
Ramage’s air of gallant consideration and Ann Veronica’s self-possessed
answers. "But we must be getting along if we
are to lunch in the tower of the water-clock.
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