“In five minutes I shall be ready. She took up one of her father’s
novels and put it down again, fretted up to her own room for some work, sat on
her bed and meditated upon the room that she was now really abandoning
forever, and returned at length with a stocking to darn. Let us have no more of this
humbug. A florid-looking young
woman rose up and accosted him eagerly. But she made a pretence of struggling a little, for it
would be out of character for her not to do so and she did not want to arouse his
suspicions. . “Annabel,” she said brusquely. It’s all very fine and all
that, Vee, this freedom, but it isn’t going to work. "
The attendant did not understand him. An old man with a bent back who limped in, slow
and stiff, leaning heavily on a cane. "Before I go," continued Sir Rowland, "I must beg of you to disclose to me all
you know relative to the parentage of Thames Darrell. “Perhaps by this time you will have heard of the step I have taken in leaving
my home. ”
She shocked him by that. There was a short, red-faced,
resolute youth who inherited an authoritative attitude upon bacteriology from his
father; a Japanese student of unassuming manners who drew beautifully and had
an imperfect knowledge of English; and a dark, unwashed Scotchman with
complicated spectacles, who would come every morning as a sort of volunteer
supplementary demonstrator, look very closely at her work and her, tell her that
her dissections were “fairish,” or “very fairish indeed,” or “high above the
normal female standard,” hover as if for some outbreak of passionate gratitude
and with admiring retrospects that made the facetted spectacles gleam like
diamonds, return to his own place.
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