‘Home?’
‘To your family. Oh, don't
worry. I’m in a mess—a
nasty mess! a filthy mess! Oh, no end of a mess!
“Do you hear, Ann Veronica?—you’re in a nasty, filthy, unforgivable mess!
“Haven’t I just made a silly mess of things?
“Forty pounds! I haven’t got twenty!”
She got up, stamped with her foot, and then, suddenly remembering the lodger
below, sat down and wrenched off her boots. Run along while I rig up and get the part in my hair straight. ’
He did as she bid him, and was very soon rewarded by the discovery of an
oval miniature, encased in gold. “Please come by. ”
Lucy could tell that Michelle was lying by the way her
pupils reacted, no longer following the sunlight. All
the furniture was moved, all the meals were disarranged, and everybody, Ann
Veronica included, appeared in new, bright costumes. But if we had gone
under—!”
They regarded one another silently, and Ann Veronica had one of her
penetrating flashes. ’
‘Did I so?’ Gerald said, amused. The likelihood is
that I shan’t see the wench again. ’
‘Yes, but in fact you’ve offered me far more entertainment than any French
spy could have done.
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