‘So now you may safely cease
your roundaboutation, and tell me what took you to Remenham House. Chapter XXIV
A CASE FOR THE POLICE
After that first horrible moment it was perhaps Anna who was the more selfpossessed. I'll tell you something. ”
“We’ve come past it, miss,” the man answered, with a note of finality in his gruff
voice. His tie had demanded a struggle; he ought to have taken a clean one
after his first failure. Whenever you grow
impatient with her, remember the folly of her father. In the mean time, let me advise you as a friend not to irritate him
by a refusal, which would be as useless as vexatious. No doubt they've all been rejected; but he couldn't throw them
overboard. None of the things they said and did were altogether new to Ann Veronica, but
now she got them massed and alive, instead of by glimpses or in books—alive
and articulate and insistent. Where were you
married?”
“At the English Embassy in Paris. As a matter of fact Mr. "
"Ha!" exclaimed Jack, drawing in his breath, and leaning forward with intense
curiosity.
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