”
“You are not yourself to-night, Courtlaw,” Ennison said. Sheppard in the asylum, and take her this, and send her that;—and I've
never prevented you, though such mistaken liberality's enough to provoke a
saint. Better come
another morning. The Vorsack house bore the stamp of Diane in every
visible spot. ”
Ann Veronica had three things very definitely settled by the time when, a little
after mid-day, she found herself perched up on a gate between a bridle-path and
a field that commanded the whole wide stretch of country between Chalking and
Waldersham. Why hadn't he admitted that he recognized the
photograph? What instinct had impelled him swiftly to assume his Oriental
mask?
"Why?" asked O'Higgins. Won’t you come and have some tea with me? There is a new
place in Bond Street,” he hastened to say, “where everything is very well done,
and they give us music, if that is any attraction to you. A dog appeared unexpectedly upon the threshold. ”
She was frightened—his anger always did frighten her—and in her resolve to
conceal her fright she carried a queen-like dignity to what she felt even at the
time was a preposterous pitch. Then
one old crone, short-sighted and shaky-handed, called Ann Veronica “dearie,”
and made some remark, obscure and slangy, of which the spirit rather than the
words penetrated to her understanding.
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