Abruptly, Gerald turned. "Why came
she here?"
"She could not resist the hand of fate which drew her hither," replied Sir Cecil,
mournfully. Ann Veronica brought her luggage in a cab from the hotel; she tipped the hotel
porter sixpence and overpaid the cabman eighteenpence, unpacked some of her
books and possessions, and so made the room a little homelike, and then sat
down in a by no means uncomfortable arm-chair before the fire. ”
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Capes thought. "
The chair was then opened. ”
“He mentioned the matter to me also,” Miss Pellissier remarked stiffly. My sister made me
over, you know. The spinsters—who on the morrow would
vanish out of the girl's life for ever—had already left their imprint upon her
imagination. “I wonder which of us enjoys that most,” said Capes—“does he, or do we?”
“He seems to get a zest—”
“He does it and forgets it. Perhaps, after all, the others were right. “I don’t see what he has to do with my coming to London?”
“He—he worships the ground you tread on.
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