"A thousand pounds," he observed, gloomily, "is a heavy price to pay for
doubtful secrecy, when certain silence might be so cheaply procured. ‘I do not wish to
hear any more reasons so foolish, so do not trouble to think of them. She alone of them all knew that
he was on the first leg of the terrible journey to the beach. I
knew where I would go next: Florence. Stanley used his authority, and commanded Ann Veronica to come home, to
which, of course, she said she wouldn’t; and then he warned her not to defy him,
warned her very solemnly, and then commanded her again. That there Frenchie didn’t look
any too friendly to me. ‘But I have the pistol,’ Gerald pointed out. In some cases they were ground almost to powder; in
others, driven deeply into the earth, as if discharged from a piece of ordnance. “Women should understand men’s affairs, perhaps,” said Miss Garvice, “but
to mingle in them is just to sacrifice that power of influencing they can exercise
now. Ann Veronica’s experiences of
men had been among more stable types—Teddy, who was always absurd; her
father, who was always authoritative and sentimental; Manning, who was always
Manning.
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