It was as if she had grown right past her father into
something older and of infinitely wider outlook, as if he had always been
unsuspectedly a flattened figure, and now she had discovered him from the other
side. ”
“Then how have you managed?”
“Bother!” said Ann Veronica to herself, and tried not to look guilty. "
Darrell returned no answer. I miss her a lot. "
"Have you acquainted him with Lady Trafford's departure?" said the knight,
addressing Charcam, with as much composure as he could assume. The youth produced a crumpled-up card from his waistcoat pocket. ”
“But how?”
“I poured him out some port wine, and I said—let me see—oh, ‘You are going
to be a grandfather!’”
“Yes. It had been
her father’s surname, and it had sounded far more
innocuous and American than Iovelli. The risk I run is
nothing to yours. He stopped in mid-sentence, and Ann Veronica opened the door for her aunt. Hetty, looking out of the window—she always smoked her after-breakfast
cigarette at the window for the benefit of the less advanced section of
Morningside Park society—and trying not to raise objections, saw Miss Stanley
going down toward the shops. If he laid his own suspicions
boldly before the girl, and in the end the boy came clean, he would always be
haunted by the witless cruelty of the act. “I don’t want to take up your time. And because he knew it was a burden, there was no gaiety upon the doctor's
face; neither was there speech on his tongue. "
"If this is the extent of it, Sir," returned the knight, ironically, "you may spare
yourself further trouble.
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