Sir John, by instinct and training, was an unimaginative person. The open windows were above
them now and, unless the intruder were to lean out, they could not possibly be
seen. Anna held out her hand, and he paused. “Go on!”
“People talked to you in Paris about us,” she continued, “about Anna the
virtuous and Annabel the rake. Wood at Dollis Hill, was assaulted and half-killed
by a party of ruffians, headed, he swore, by Mr. ”
“You what?” she repeated incredulously. And such skirts as Ann Veronica had had
when she entered the valley of Saas were safely packed away in the hotel, and
she wore a leather belt and loose knickerbockers and puttees—a costume that
suited the fine, long lines of her limbs far better than any feminine walking-dress
could do. ’
‘But if you have not seen him, then he has certainly escaped. “I do hope you will see how things are, and not be offended with me or
frightfully shocked and distressed by what I have done. What else was there lurked in
shadows and deep places; if in some mood of reverie it came out into the light, it
was presently overwhelmed and hustled back again into hiding. He has a very summary
mode of dealing with refractory persons, I assure you. He caressed
her tenderly, with no trace of the Sebastian who had
previously knocked her off her feet with a slap across the
mouth.
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