‘Cajolery? This is not your style. I don’t idealize you. It was the blood she found that
cemented her decision that her foster daughter was a
criminal. “Is that okay with you? To go down to the station
with him?”
“I’ll go with him, Larry. And this damning evidence―’ with a
brusque gesture at the portrait ‘―must also be destroyed. He
leaned towards her, laid his hand tenderly upon hers. ‘Think I’m fool enough to do my business in a convent?’ he said scornfully. “Stop! Stop telling me these things at once! We
should stay in the Palazzo! I must protect my ancestral
home!” Gianfrancesco exclaimed. “You understand, then,” he was saying, “you understand?”
“I understand,” said Ann Veronica, tear-wet and flushed with a reciprocal
passion, but standing up to him with an equality that amazed even herself, “I
understand. We'll be upon the ban-dogs before they can shake their trotters!"
And the alarm was sounded more loudly than ever. Then she went in and up-stairs, hesitated on the landing,
and finally, a little breathless and with an air of great dignity, opened the door
and walked into Ann Veronica’s room.
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