”
For some creditable moments in her life Ann Veronica was utterly disgusted
with herself; she was wrung with a passionate and belated desire to move gently,
to speak softly and ambiguously—to be, in effect, prim. “Why, among other things, did I put my knuckles in his neck—deliberately to
hurt him?”
She tried to sound the humorous note. Chairs were overturned. ’
For a moment Gerald said nothing at all. It was an uproarious affair, for Rollo now knew that he had been
grieviously betrayed: they were trying to kill him in a new way. The young man was
mollified by her sympathy, and flattered by the obvious attempts of several of
the other guests to draw him into conversation. ’
A trifle discomposed at being caught examining his surroundings, Gerald was
provoked into retort. "But he can't be
far off. ”
Annabel rose and followed her sister from the room. Both had dropped the rather elaborate politeness of the
dining-room, and in their faces an impartial observer would have discovered
little lines of obstinate wilfulness in common; a certain hardness—sharp, indeed,
in the father and softly rounded in the daughter—but hardness nevertheless, that
made every compromise a bargain and every charity a discount. “Is this a concession to Mrs. “The man is dangerous. She
had found two copies of the magazine and carefully cut
out both photos.
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