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Thames turned away at the question, which he felt might be construed into a
reproach. “For better or worse. ‘Assuming she can prove her identity, does
Remenham House belong to her?’
Mrs Sindlesham shifted her shoulders. He was still flashily dressed, with much obvious
jewellery and the shiniest of patent boots, but his general bearing and appearance
had altered for the worse. “I had a faint idea once that things were as you say they are, but the affair of
the ring—of the unexpected ring—puzzled me. Yet her hands dropped, and she sighed deeply. ”
Part 3
When Ann Veronica found herself in her father’s study that evening it seemed
to her for a moment as though all the events of the past six months had been a
dream. “You, anyhow, don’t deserve
it,” he said. The girl wondered what effect the information would have upon Ah Cum if she
told him that until a month ago she had never seen a city, she had never seen a
telephone, a railway train, an automobile, a lift, a paved street. “Will they worry about you getting caught in a storm?”
She asked him as she viewed black clouds floating in
different directions. But the objects in
his range of vision remained unchanged. She assumed with a kind of mesmeric
force all the propositions that Ann Veronica wanted her to define. ‘This is not love, Marthe. CHAPTER XXII.
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