Ann
Veronica had had some training at the Tredgold College in disentangling threads
from confused statements, and she had a curious persuasion that in all this fluent
muddle there was something—something real, something that signified. ’
Kimble frowned direfully, staring at the weapon with its gold hilt and
decorative pattern down the blade. The small Diedermayer clan was a captive
audience. She slipped
down the perfunctory flight of stairs, short because of the
home’s split-level style. A nine days’
wonder is soon forgotten. To-night there seemed to be a new brilliancy in her eyes, a deeper quality
in her tone. I wish”—
she found she had embarked on a bad sentence—“I wish we needn’t have
quarrelled. “Pray accept my apologies. It did not cheer or fortify him with false
courage and recklessness; it simply enveloped him in a mist of unreality. The haste to send her upon her way now had but one interpretation—the
recognition of his own immediate danger, the fear that if this tender association
continued, he would end in offering her a calamity quite as impossible as that
which had happened—the love of a man who was in all probability older than
her father! The hurt was no less intensive because it was so ridiculous. That for the men lay near
the Lodge, with which it was connected by a dark passage. ‘I’m not going to
arrest you, young Jack—yet.
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