“I’ll get a towel. But he could only discern a black and shapeless mass, floating upon the
water at a little distance, which, to his bewildered fancy, appeared absolutely
standing still. It was bleeding again. You are French?"
"No. “Frightful lot of things aren’t settled,” said Ann Veronica. All
the rest of his existence was subordinate to this pursuit; he lived for it, worked
for it, kept himself in training for it. During the previous night he had been restless; and in the
lonely dragging hours his thoughts had raced in an endless circle—action
without progress. ’
‘Lord,’ Gerald murmured, awed more by the outspokenness of his hostess than
by what she had said. “We will convince him now to the contrary,” Annabel answered. "
"Did Ah Cum advise you?"
"He did pretty well for a Chinaman. He filled her
glass with champagne. I’m in a mess—a
nasty mess! a filthy mess! Oh, no end of a mess!
“Do you hear, Ann Veronica?—you’re in a nasty, filthy, unforgivable mess!
“Haven’t I just made a silly mess of things?
“Forty pounds! I haven’t got twenty!”
She got up, stamped with her foot, and then, suddenly remembering the lodger
below, sat down and wrenched off her boots. Annabel lounged in her chair with a sort of insolent abandon in her pose,
and wide-open eyes which never flinched or drooped. There were moments when she thought of turning upon this man and talking
to him.
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