But the
restraint exercised by her instinctive delicacy was very great; over and above
coarse or sexual matters it covered religion and politics and any mention of
money matters or crime, and Ann Veronica found herself wondering whether
these exclusions represented, after all, anything more than suppressions. Sometimes her
straying mind would become astonishingly active—embroidering bright and
decorative things that she could say to Capes; sometimes it passed into a state of
passive acquiescence, into a radiant, formless, golden joy. You shall have a house out at Balham or
Sydenham, and two servants. Annabel lounged in her chair with a sort of insolent abandon in her pose,
and wide-open eyes which never flinched or drooped. My boys buy them with beads or bolts
of calico of mine. At least I rather hoped I
might spend my time chasing smugglers, which would have afforded some
excitement. Loneliness—something that was almost physical: as if the vitality had been
taken out of the air she breathed. Why are you doing all this?’
To his surprise, Melusine relaxed back, emitting a laugh that sounded perfectly
genuine. Promise me that you will not disobey the injunctions
of her whose memory we must both of us ever revere. Kimberly Steele
Naperville, Illinois
The characters, events, and places depicted in
Forever Fifteen are purely figments of the author’s
entertaining, overactive imagination. Some part of the stiff vigour of the man
seemed to have subsided.
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