“It’s funny, the way a good house feels. "
"Ah. My
engagement at the ‘Garrick’ terminates Saturday week, and then I am free. “No power on earth will
persuade me we’re not two rather disreputable persons. The theme was a masquerade. Miss Stanley had determined from the
outset to have the warmest affection for her youngest niece and to be a second
mother in her life—a second and a better one; but she had found much to battle
with, and there was much in herself that Ann Veronica failed to understand. Once
upon a time she and Roddy had descended thence by the drain-pipe. He was therefore
obliged to use the iron bar, which he did with as much caution as circumstances
would permit. Don't you remember? There were four of us, and we
went touring in the city. ’
Miss Froxfield intervened quickly as her betrothed showed signs of erupting
again. “No doubt about that, I fancy,” Meddoes answered lightly. Inexplicably there flashed into vision the Chinese wedding procession in the
narrow, twisted streets of the city, that first day: the gorgeous palanquin, the tomtoms, the weird music, the ribald, jeering mob that trailed along behind. “I think that I shall be the
most unpopular man in London.
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