‘Don’t be too sure,’ responded Major Gerald Alderley on a dry note. Will you marry me?”
Anna looked at him in blank amazement. Beneath the serene unconcern of Ann Veronica’s face was a boiling tumult. Perhaps she was. But a far
greater affliction was in store for her. After these dinners they would have a walk, usually to the Thames
Embankment to see the two sweeps of river on either side of Waterloo Bridge;
and then they would part at Westminster Bridge, perhaps, and he would go on to
Waterloo. Ah, but she could remember; and many things there were
that she would never forgive. I had
special ways of getting out of the basement without them
noticing, and often I could smuggle a child or two out for
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the day and they were never the wiser. He would always see the picture of the
huge, raw-boned Dutchman, haranguing and thundering the word of God into
the dull ears of South Sea Islanders, who, an hour later, would be carrying fruit
penitently to their wooden images.
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