And yet—he thought of the supper party where he had met
Annabel Pellissier, the stories about her, his own few minutes’ whispered lovemaking! He was a self-contained young man, but his cheeks grew hot at the
thought of the things which it had seemed quite natural to say to her then, but
which he knew very well would have been instantly resented by the girl whom
he had just left. If we fail,” said Capes, “then—”
“We aren’t going to fail,” said Ann Veronica. “I think you are getting to
understand me better. For her it
was sufficient to know that somebody wanted her, that never again would she be
alone, that always this boy with the dreams would be depending upon her. Then she would write and tell her father what she
had done, and put their relationship on a new footing. I would do anything—I would give
anything to make you mine. John’s best
friend’s parents were to be out of town again, he
reported. ‘I suppose he isn’t this Leonardo you spoke of?’
‘Certainly he is not Leonardo. There were moments when she doubted whether the whole mass
of movements and societies and gatherings and talks was not simply one
coherent spectacle of failure protecting itself from abjection by the glamour of
its own assertions. Wild in his
own domain. The world is
known to you. How could she tell him what indeed already began to
puzzle herself, why she had borrowed that money at all? The plain fact was that
she had grabbed a bait.
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