How old are you?’
‘I have nineteen years, and it is quite unimportant. ’
‘How was it then that Nicholas Charvill was known to have gone to France. “I think,” began Ann Veronica, “that you don’t realize—”
He disregarded her entirely. Fortescue rambled
round the garden with soft, propitiatory steps, the Corinthian nose upraised and
his hands behind his back, pausing to look long and hard at the fruit-trees against
the wall. To the practised eye of the waterman matters wore a very different
air. And yet—he thought of the supper party where he had met
Annabel Pellissier, the stories about her, his own few minutes’ whispered lovemaking! He was a self-contained young man, but his cheeks grew hot at the
thought of the things which it had seemed quite natural to say to her then, but
which he knew very well would have been instantly resented by the girl whom
he had just left. ”
Part 4
Ann Veronica’s ideas of marriage were limited and unsystematic. shouldn’t be
friends.
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