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And muttering some remarks, which we do not care to repeat, reflecting upon
the consistency of the sex, he was preparing once more to depart, when Mrs. 256
Lucy chose her words carefully. ‘En tout
cas, it is not reasonable that I could be at all in love with him. The
music took hold of her slowly as her eyes wandered from the indistinct still
ranks of the audience to the little busy orchestra with its quivering violins, its
methodical movements of brown and silver instruments, its brightly lit scores
and shaded lights. This morning his entourage (as he jestingly called it) consisted of the girl, two
spinsters (Prudence and Angelina Jedson), prim and doubtful of the world, and
the young man who appeared to be considerably the worse for the alcohol he had
consumed. He was unusually absurd and ready, and all the time it seemed to Ann
Veronica as a delightful possibility, as a thing not indeed to be entertained
seriously, but to be half furtively felt, that he was being so agreeable because she
had come back again. ‘If you care for me at all, shoot me. When she came to school on
Friday, she almost tripped twice going up the stairs. You have your work before you, and I——”
He kissed her on the lips. About her, as she had gone day by
day to and from the Tredgold College, she had seen and not seen many an
incidental aspect of those sides of life about which girls are expected to know
nothing, aspects that were extraordinarily relevant to her own position and
outlook on the world, and yet by convention ineffably remote. The expression was wholly different. She laughed.
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