“I wanted to make love to you. This was no night for the indulgence of
dreamy musing. You fell in at once with her quixotic and damnable
scheme of foisting her reputation and her follies upon your shoulders whilst she
marries a rich man and commences all over again a life of selfish pleasure. I went with
him to what I supposed to be the British Embassy, and went through a ceremony
which I understood to be the usual form of the marriage one used there. He had more
time for her. ‘Well, what was I to think, miss? Martha never wrote nothing about you, and I
did ask. Who is she, I say?”
“My sister!” Annabel faltered. ‘The sisters here will not save you. The light touch of Ah Cum's hand upon her arm broke the thread of retrospective
thought; and her gray eyes began to register again the things she saw. I don’t
see that men need bank it with the women. “And that only brings me up to about sixty-five!
“A glittering wilderness of time
That to the sunset reaches
No keel as yet its waves has ploughed
Or gritted on its beaches. And at last Ann Veronica and Miss Miniver came down the dark staircase and
out into the foggy spaces of the London squares, and crossed Russell Square,
Woburn Square, Gordon Square, making an oblique route to Ann Veronica’s
lodging. I love him as a
brother. “Oh, dammit!” he remarked, “dammit!” with great bitterness as he faced it.
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