You see, we travelled
second class, and we are in the least known quarter of Paris. She felt smaller and more adventurous even
than she had expected to feel. “Didn’t you know he was married?” asked Miss Klegg, and was struck by a
thought that made her glance quickly at her companion. Good heavens! She was discussing love-making. ‘One would take it
that the house had been ransacked. “You were going to answer it?”
“Certainly not!” she said deliberately. “NO!”
she said, at last, with something in her voice that reminded Ann Veronica of a
sprung tennis-racket. “We’ll go together. And then,
“They seem changed. But did Gerald trouble himself
about her? No. When first brought under consideration, she was a miserable and forlorn
object; squalid in attire, haggard in looks, and emaciated in frame. He urged his
conductors to a quicker pace to get out of sight of the distressing spectacle, and
even felt relieved when he was shut out from it and the execrations of the mob
by the walls of the little prison. “Not for these things, O Ann Veronica, have you revolted,” it said; “and this is
not your appropriate purpose. Oh, goodness! Bilking! Ann
Veronica, you’re a bilker!”
Pause. She had to exert
tremendous energy not to sniff the air for his blood.
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