’
‘He had no further need of them,’ Gosse said and his laugh sounded heartless
to Melusine. Ann Veronica decided she would have to go on with Capes another day,
and, looking up, discovered him sitting on a stool with his hands in his pockets
and his head a little on one side, regarding her with a thoughtful expression. Her sense followed the shoulders under his
coat, down to where his flexible, sensitive-looking hand rested lightly upon the
table. As soon as dinner was over she went into the
kitchen and devoted herself to compiling a tray—not a tray merely of halfcooled dinner things, but a specially prepared “nice” tray, suitable for tempting
any one. He rose at once to his feet and turned a white face
upon her. Ah! I
shall never forget the figure Jack cut on that occasion. Her cheeks burned for a moment or two when she reached the street, although
she held her head upright and walked blithely, even humming to herself
fragments of an old French song. When Ann
Veronica got it she had at first a wild, fantastic idea that it contained a tip. But I
do not even care if I am absurd. . ‘You see, it is that my papa, he is without sympathy,’ said the lady sadly. .
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