”
And while he talked and watched her as he talked, she answered, and behind
her listening watched and thought about him. From head to foot he was attired in the fashionable garb
of the young man of the moment. “I
don’t mind, of course, your seeing her sometimes, still there are differences—
differences in social atmospheres. He was in misery; he was paying for last
night's debauch. “Think of what Lady Palsworthy will say! Think of what”—So-and-so
—“will say! What are we to tell people?
“Besides, what am I to tell your father?”
At first it had not been at all clear to Ann Veronica that she would refuse to
return home; she had had some dream of a capitulation that should leave her an
enlarged and defined freedom, but as her aunt put this aspect and that of her
flight to her, as she wandered illogically and inconsistently from one urgent
consideration to another, as she mingled assurances and aspects and emotions, it
became clearer and clearer to the girl that there could be little or no change in the
position of things if she returned. "
"God help me, what a muddle!" The cigar crumbled in Spurlock's hand. ‘Thought it was downright wicked to
keep you ignorant of your proper background. His anger gave way to grim humour and he
thrust towards them, leaning heavily on his cane. “And now,”
said Ann Veronica surveying her apartment with an unprecedented sense of
proprietorship, “what is the next step?”
She spent the evening in writing—it was a little difficult—to her father and—
which was easier—to the Widgetts.
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