To her horror she
realized that she had nearly forgotten how to kiss after a
years-long dry spell, and she could detect drool on her
own chin and John’s cheek. She leaned over and kissed his cheek
innocently. "What shall I do? If I persist,
I shall destroy her. Her eye met his four inches away, and his was glaring,
immense, and full of resolution, a stupendous monster of an eye. "Auntie?" he cried. ‘And I suppose I shall be obliged to endure
another nonsensical tale about your husband. She was watching him intently. She may afford us some necessary information. She made noises between weeping and laughter as she went. “We are not the sort that goes under,” said Ann Veronica, holding her hands so
that the red reflections vanished from her eyes. “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. In a momentary fury she seized and tore in pieces the
study which remained upon the easel.
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