That was an
admission all right. But McClintock's mind was perceptive, whereas Spurlock's
was only dully confused. "I cannot but approve the course you are about to take, Jack," said Thames,
"though on some accounts I regret it. The asylum was approached by a broad gravel walk,
leading through a garden edged on either side by a stone balustrade, and shaded
by tufted trees. 253
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LUCY GOES TO DINNER
Mike and Lucy trudged over to the Vorsack’s house. Everybody seemed greatly concerned
about the sincerity of Tolstoy. There was a little pause between them,
full for Ann Veronica of rapid elusive suspicions and intimations. ‘What in Hades d’ye mean, thanks to me? Want to blame anyone, blame
that rapscallion who calls himself your father. He was a Wiltshire Edmondshaw, a very old family. But they climbed more than
he had intended because Ann Veronica proved rather a good climber, steadyheaded and plucky, rather daring, but quite willing to be cautious at his
command. Sheppard let fall her basket. He himself, middle-aged, steeped in traditions of the City and moneymaking, very ill-skilled in all the lighter graces of life, as he himself well knew,
could yet come to her invested with something of the halo of romance by the
almost magical powers of an unlimited banking account. She attempted by a sheer act of will to end the
scene, to will herself out of it anywhere.
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