“Very well,” she would say, “then I must go. At times he was brilliant and masterful, talked round and over
every one, and would have been domineering if he had not been extraordinarily
kindly; at times he was almost monosyllabic, and defeated Miss Garvice’s most
skilful attempts to draw him out. “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. I am so much obliged to you for your projected
benevolence. It was
convenient for Father Saint-Simon, who could enter this way and prepare in the
little room before going up the narrow stair to the chapel above where the nuns
waited. “Hotel Ritz!”
Chapter XXXI
ANNA’S TEA PARTY
“I suppose you haven’t the least idea who I am,” Lady Lescelles said, as she
settled herself in Anna’s most comfortable chair. ”
“Then how have you managed?”
“Bother!” said Ann Veronica to herself, and tried not to look guilty. ’ I said. I'm not
interested in him. But how could you get—Who gave you credit?
“You see,” said Ann Veronica, “my landlady kept on my room while I was in
Holloway, and the fees for the College mounted up pretty considerably. ‘It is what my father intended. Wood's present position, and subsequent proceedings fully
intelligible, it may be necessary to give some notion of the shape and structure of
the platform on which he had taken refuge. “My Mom makes more money than my Dad, a lot
more. I jumped then—I
was not even shaken. “These two haven’t been lovers for a long time.
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