"It seems like six long
months to me. She was introduced, perhaps a little too obviously for her taste, as a girl who
was standing out against her people, to a gathering that consisted of a very old
lady with an extremely wrinkled skin and a deep voice who was wearing what
appeared to Ann Veronica’s inexperienced eye to be an antimacassar upon her
head, a shy, blond young man with a narrow forehead and glasses, two
undistinguished women in plain skirts and blouses, and a middle-aged couple,
very fat and alike in black, Mr. And Anna was conscious of a few moments of
exquisite emotion. As if he read her thought, he spoke it aloud. ‘A thing Marthe told me of,’ Melusine answered, her attention on the garments
that were still lying higgledy-piggledy, just as she had left them. ‘Jacques!’
She got no further, for Kimble came towards her, speaking fast and low. Once a week, every
Saturday, they had a little gathering from nine till the small hours, just talk and
perhaps reading aloud and fruitarian refreshments—chestnut sandwiches
buttered with nut tose, and so forth—and lemonade and unfermented wine; and
to one of these symposia Miss Miniver after a good deal of preliminary
solicitude, conducted Ann Veronica. “It is too late for visitors,” she remarked. ToC
Mrs.
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