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The tapping for which Melusine had been waiting came at last. The idea of this sudden reluctance was
elusive; the fact was evident but not the reason for it. At the sound of the door Ann Veronica uncovered a tearless face,
and with one swift movement assumed a conversational attitude. “Hullo!”
Courtlaw, haggard, his deep-set eyes more brilliant than ever, took Anna’s hand
into his, and breathed a little close drawn sigh of content. “You are persuaded to come and take part in these outrageous proceedings—
many of you, I am convinced, have no idea whatever of their nature. She had
once reconciled in her mind that she was happy as long as
she had him. She was not afraid of violence, but she was afraid of something
mean, some secondary kind of force. She read the policeman’s
rueful glance when she caught his refection in his
rearview mirror. They
seemed to her that morning to be all armed with nets and prepared to throw them
over her directly her movements became in any manner truly free. He
propped himself up on one arm, kissing her passionately.
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