“You did not wish to see him particularly this evening, then?” Anna hesitated. “A joke! Sir John, if you had presented yourself here an hour ago we should have greeted you in pained silence. That same adventurousness that had already buoyed her through crises that would have overwhelmed any normally feminine girl with shame and horror now became uppermost again. She found presently she was out of the dock and confronted with the alternative of being bound over in one surety for the sum of forty pounds— whatever that might mean or a month’s imprisonment. Over the mantel, set into an ornately carved panel with fluted columns at each end, was a portrait of a man on horseback. From time to time she would come upon a line of singular beauty or a paragraph full of haunting music; and these would send her rushing on for something that never happened. Foolish compliments were tossed about like confetti. Practically it was most of the chief interests in life that she proposed to settle in this pedestrian meditation. She could not stir hand or foot. But she no longer felt Jacomo’s age, even if she looked it. Distress like hers might palliate far greater offences than she ever committed. " "If you must go to prison, I will go with you," cried Mrs.
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