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“You!” said Ann Veronica. "No, I don't. What else could one say? I left him to suppose—a
registry perhaps. She paused for a moment. She met the keen grey eyes of a clean-shaven man, between forty and fifty,
quietly dressed in professional attire. Her heartbeat
quickened. I hid because there was
no other way of seeing you. ’
For the first time since she had heard the news, Mrs Sindlesham’s features
relaxed and a tiny smile appeared. Home!—
which I never hoped to see again. Everything in the world to live for!—fame that he could not reap, love that he
must not take! What was all this pother about hell as a future state?
By and by things began to stir on the table: little invisible things. She must
have the capability to learn magic, to learn the
enchantments that add to her power. Was it that the struggle of things to survive produced as a sort of necessary byproduct these intense preferences and appreciations, or was it that some mystical
outer thing, some great force, drove life beautyward, even in spite of expediency,
regardless of survival value and all the manifest discretions of life? She went to
Capes with that riddle and put it to him very carefully and clearly, and he talked
well—he always talked at some length when she took a difficulty to him—and
sent her to a various literature upon the markings of butterflies, the
incomprehensible elaboration and splendor of birds of Paradise and hummingbirds’ plumes, the patterning of tigers, and a leopard’s spots. “I’d run away with you in a heartbeat. Why was she noting things like this? Capes seemed selfpossessed and elaborately genial and commonplace, but she knew him to be
nervous by a little occasional clumsiness, by the faintest shadow of vulgarity in
the urgency of his hospitality. Officers were these.
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