“Aunt!” she said, “I can’t—”
Then she caught a wild appeal in her aunt’s blue eye, halted, and the door
clicked upon them. And I’ll have that story off you as we
journey back to town. London, Paris, Rome! There were no hotel labels on the
patient's trunk, but there were ship labels; and by these she was able to
reconstruct the journey: from New York to Naples, thence to Alexandria; from
Port Saïd to Colombo; from Colombo to Bombay; from Calcutta to Rangoon,
thence down to Singapore; from Singapore to Hong-Kong. "But, let that pass. Stanley, to which the two ladies subordinated
themselves intelligently. How I envied Gianfrancesco on his
wedding night, how I writhed in agony just thinking
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about his intimacies with you! Then you became
pregnant, and there he was, posturing and gloating like
the rest of the family, my divinations of a boy in your
womb pronounced. It wouldn’t be you. She was a woman now to the tips of her fingers; she had said
good-bye to her girlhood in the old garden four years and a quarter ago. “I think,” began Ann Veronica, “that you don’t realize—”
He disregarded her entirely.
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