"Heaven be praised she knows me at last. ‘You don’t mean to say she’s here?’
‘Was,’ Gerald corrected. Why not kill her here, and leave silently, the way he must
have come? Could it be that he had not the intention to kill her? En tout cas, it
gave her a chance. A bowl of roses, just brought by Ann Veronica, adorned the communal
dressing-table, and Ann Veronica was particularly trim in preparation for a call
she was to make with her aunt later in the afternoon. But to England! What has
happened, then?”
Already the terror of a few hours ago seemed to have passed away from the girl
who leaned back so lazily in her chair, watching the tip of her patent shoe swing
backwards and forwards. I do not believe that you will marry David Courtlaw. It resembled
Mardi Gras, and she thought disdainfully of New
Orleans. Sheppard. “Think of what Lady Palsworthy will say! Think of what”—So-and-so
—“will say! What are we to tell people?
“Besides, what am I to tell your father?”
At first it had not been at all clear to Ann Veronica that she would refuse to
return home; she had had some dream of a capitulation that should leave her an
enlarged and defined freedom, but as her aunt put this aspect and that of her
flight to her, as she wandered illogically and inconsistently from one urgent
consideration to another, as she mingled assurances and aspects and emotions, it
became clearer and clearer to the girl that there could be little or no change in the
position of things if she returned.
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