Before
she knew what had happened, Gosse turned suddenly, and vaulted one of the
pews into the gap behind. “He must never know,” she would whisper to herself,
“he must never know. It was common name, so I was thrown off the
scent. Gerald hoped he had covered
all options and had resisted the temptation to pay mademoiselle a visit. One doesn’t want to lose a grain. “Do you mean, aunt,” she asked, “that my father thought I had gone off—with
some man?”
“What else COULD he think? Would any one DREAM you would be so mad
as to go off alone?”
“After—after what had happened the night before?”
“Oh, why raise up old scores? If you could see him this morning, his poor face
as white as a sheet and all cut about with shaving! He was for coming up by the
very first train and looking for you, but I said to him, ‘Wait for the letters,’ and
there, sure enough, was yours. It comes to this—am I to be trusted to take care of myself, or am I not?”
“To judge from this proposal of yours, I should say not. “Both!” said Ann Veronica. In the adjacent apartment Ann Veronica found a middle-aged woman with a
tired face under the tired hat she wore, sitting at a desk opening letters while a
dusky, untidy girl of eight-or nine-and-twenty hammered industriously at a
typewriter. There is something that inspires a feeling of inexpressible melancholy in sailing
on a dark night upon the Thames. She repeated this breathlessly. He
threw up his hand, reeled for a moment on his feet, and collapsed upon the floor.
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