”
“I grant you absolution. And she’s
pluck to the backbone. ”
CHAPTER THE SIXTEENTH
IN THE MOUNTAINS
Part 1
Next day Ann Veronica and Capes felt like newborn things. He
made it impossible not to respond, his arms tightening
deliciously around hers. “I
said that at the Zoo, and I mean it. But in between these wider phases of comparative confidence were
gaps of disconcerting doubt, when the universe was presented as making sinister
and threatening faces at her, defying her to defy, preparing a humiliating and
shameful overthrow. She further suspected that he
might find a servant to dally with in the meantime, if he
had not already. The party resolved itself for Ann Veronica into a
game in which she manoeuvred unostentatiously and finally unsuccessfully to
avoid talking alone with this gentleman. Only he hated the words he
uttered, hated the blunt honesty which forced them from his lips. His car was there. ”
“If you tempt me too much,” she said, after a silence, “I shall do it. But to draw the
attention of the milice, no, that is not at all desirable.
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