“I find it very hard to write this letter. She had in her suitcase a small scrapbook, only a few
pages, what little information she had gathered on him
through the years. Wood
scarcely knew where he was. Later on—well then the time may come. Diamonds! You shall have all that you can carry away, sacks full if
you like. Please tell me what your terms are. He himself, middle-aged, steeped in traditions of the City and moneymaking, very ill-skilled in all the lighter graces of life, as he himself well knew,
could yet come to her invested with something of the halo of romance by the
almost magical powers of an unlimited banking account. You
make a game with me, imbecile. It is really cheap, you know. This time she feinted as his point came up to deflect her own, and
disengaging, passed under and cut at his cheek. He
yelled to her, asking her if she wished to have a drink with
him, which she refused. ”
CHAPTER THE TWELFTH
ANN VERONICA PUTS THINGS IN ORDER
Part 1
Ann Veronica made a strenuous attempt to carry out her good resolutions. Her
secret thoughts made some hasty, half-hearted excursions into the possibility of
telling the thing in romantic tones—Ramage was as a black villain, she as a
white, fantastically white, maiden. But there were two
places of punishment which merit some notice from their peculiarity. Yet I shall think of you to-day.
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