You will go to London?”
“It is necessary,” she answered. ”
“And if you are a millionaire like Drummond,” someone remarked, “you send
round a note and ask her to come out to supper. ”
She felt, with a sudden horror, that she might weep. “Useless—worse than useless. And also she didn’t like them. I
just don’t know where to start. “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 have never been out of this horrible dungeon since we last met," he said;
"though how long ago that is, I scarcely know. So long as they're about, I'll always be rewriting them
and wasting my time. "What poet was that?"
"Stevenson.
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