Like the Castle, which it
resembled in all respects except that it was destitute even of a barrack-bedstead,
the Red Room was reserved for state-prisoners, and had not been occupied since
the year 1716, when the jail, as has before been mentioned, was crowded by the
Preston rebels. But that
was soon put right, and she walked out into London with a peculiar exaltation of
mind, an exaltation that partook of panic and defiance, but was chiefly a sense of
vast unexampled release. ”
“You did,” Anna exclaimed. But how could you get—Who gave you credit?
“You see,” said Ann Veronica, “my landlady kept on my room while I was in
Holloway, and the fees for the College mounted up pretty considerably. However, that’s over and done with. You are a great deal more like what I
was a few months ago than I am now. ”
“But I say, Vee,” said Constance, “if you come and you are forbidden to come
there’ll be the deuce of a row. Ann Veronica’s universe, which had never been altogether so respectful to her
as she could have wished, gave a shout and whirled head over heels. "No"—as if her thoughts were elsewhere. Sir Rowland Trenchard is aware of
your return to England. ”
As Lucy got up to fetch Michelle a box of tissue, her
mind spun wildly. ”
“But why?”
“He’s married—and, I believe, living separated from his wife.
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