Her knees were trembling, her whole frame
was shaken with sobs. "Try!"
Enraged at the assurance of his mistress, the woollen-draper endeavoured to
carry his threat into execution, but all his efforts to remove her were unavailing. But
a girl is soiled not only by evil but by the proximity of evil, and a reputation for
rashness may do her as serious an injury as really reprehensible conduct. Chapter XXIV
A CASE FOR THE POLICE
After that first horrible moment it was perhaps Anna who was the more selfpossessed. Sheppard, clasping him with a hand that burnt with fever, "I
have been ill—dreadfully ill—I believe delirious—I thought I should have died
last night—I won't tell you what agony you have caused me—I won't reproach
you. “Are you aware, Ann Veronica, you nearly throttled that gentleman?”
Then she reviled her own foolish way of putting it. The whole of that
relationship persisted in remaining obscure. ”
“Did I?” she said. She was discussing one of those modern
advanced plays with a remarkable, with an extraordinary, confidence. She caught her breath, and her
eyes were lit with a sudden terror.
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