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Part 4
Ann Veronica’s ideas of marriage were limited and unsystematic. ”
“I’m afraid it can’t. He kissed her once on the lips with a passion of
which, during all their days of married life, he had given no sign. However, I've not told you all; for
old Van did say something about the child saving his new-found friend's life at
the time of meeting; but how that's to happen, I'm sure I can't guess. But there's a person in the hall—a very odd sort of man—waiting to see him,
who won't be sent away. Her
sensitive ears could hear her foster mother snoring in
front of the television. I asked him—to take me away. Wearied at
length with thinking on the past, and terrified by the prospect of the future, he
threw himself on the straw with which the cage was littered, and endeavoured to
compose himself to slumber. She warmed to him fast, her anger was much
harder to carry than the pleasant everyday neutrality of
affection. Once, when he thought he had done so, he
smiled an ingratiating smile. Lucy thought of a
song that she had not been able to get out of her head
since the Fifties.
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