“Have you dropped from the skies?” Sydney asked wonderingly. With the aid of a penknife he ripped the shoulder seams and drew out the
ten one-thousand dollar bills. ”
“John, maybe I don’t want to try out for orchestra right
now because my heart isn’t in it. One learns to sit up. Anna sat quite still for a moment, and
then the colour suddenly returned to her cheeks. Then, quite insensibly, her queenliness had declined. ”
“On the contrary,” Anna whispered quietly, “we met in a small boarding-house
where I was stopping. On the other a wretched engraving of the Chevalier de Saint George, or, as he
was styled in the label attached to the portrait, James the Third, raised a
suspicion that the inmate of the house was not altogether free from some tincture
of Jacobitism. “I’ve got bad faults. “But, how,” he said, sitting up astonished beyond measure, “not go on?”
“I have been thinking while you have been talking. 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. “Please call me Carol. ”
Annabel sank suddenly into a chair.
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