A young man, who had been spending the last hour walking
up and down on the opposite side of the way, came quickly over to her. It presented a cleanshaven face with a large Corinthian nose, hair tremendously waving off the
forehead and more chin and neck than is good for a man. ’
There was a kind of aching hunger in Gerald’s gaze. He stood up and she
ushered him out of the small room. Her sleepless
night had left her languid but not stupefied, and for an hour or so the work
distracted her altogether from her troubles. Pure luck! If the boy had grown a moustache or a beard, a needle in the haystack
would have been soft work. “What night will you dine and go to the theatre with me?—and how
about Hurlingham on Saturday?”
Anna shook her head. His hands came up, his face
broke apart. Ann Veronica, with a sigh at the cost of
hospitality, made a hasty negotiation for an extra tea and for a fire in the groundfloor apartment, and preened herself carefully for the interview. Straw and other
combustibles being collected, were placed in the middle of the audiencechamber. Come to take leave. “It hasn’t GOT a throat!”
Part 7
One day the idea of self-sacrifice came into her head, and she made, she
thought, some important moral discoveries.
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