Ramage,” said Ann Veronica, “I want to go—NOW!”
Part 5
But she did not get away just then. Her aunt was making
herself cuffs out of little slips of insertion under the newly lit lamp. So, bloody but unbeaten, weak
and spent but undaunted, he waited for the Wastrel to spring up. An hour later the doctor arrived; and after a thorough examination, he looked
doubtful. And through it all, like a golden thread on a piece of tapestry, weaving in and out
of the patterns, the unspoken longing for love. The mere fact that he was there in the train alongside her, helping her,
sitting opposite to her in the dining-car, presently sleeping on a seat within a
yard of her, made her heart sing until she was afraid their fellow passengers
would hear it. I refused to sign a petition in his behalf to the Recorder; not from any ill-will to
him, but because it was prepared by a person whom I particularly dislike—
Captain Darrell. She thought of him as
always courteous and helpful, as realizing, indeed, his ideal of protection and
service, as chivalrously leaving her free to live her own life, rejoicing with an
infinite generosity in every detail of her irresponsive being. ‘Quick, Gérard. “Dyed!”
“And your figure?”
“One’s corsetière arranges that. Sheppard. The girl wished that she had come afoot, despite the knowledge that she would
have suffered many inconveniences, accidental and intentional jostling,
insolence and ribald jest.
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