"Do not steel your heart against him, dear Thames," interposed Winifred. ”
Part 4
It was not Ann Veronica’s fault that the night’s work should have taken upon
itself the forms of wild burlesque. Dinner was served at 5:30. "Nothing—nothing," she answered, bursting into tears. It has been only the sort of nonsense which passes lightly enough
between half the men and women in London. I made it a point to bring beachcombers to the house to fill her
with horror of mankind. Teenage boys never change, she thought to herself. For that matter, my future be
damned. They all left the room. Then Ann
Veronica passed on toward the tea in the garden, which was dotted with the elite
of Morningside Park society, and there she was pounced upon by Lady
Palsworthy and given tea and led about. It
generalized everything she put to it. He was a
thin old man, a wreck in a ruined body, but nothing would induce him to stand in
any other way than as stiffly erect as possible like the soldier he had always
been, even though he was obliged to lean on his silver-handled cane to do so. "
But he searched in vain.
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