For her pride’s sake, and to save herself from long day-dreams and an
unappeasable longing for her lover, Ann Veronica worked hard at her biology
during those closing weeks. Michelle
moaned and whined, and Diane resigned herself to 11:00. ‘I thought
as how it couldn’t do no harm, and as it turns out, it done me a bit of good. ‘The cat’s foot, Hilary. . And now she insisted that she MUST leave the
chastened security of the Tredgold Women’s College for Russell’s unbridled
classes, and wanted to go to fancy dress dances in pirate costume and spend the
residue of the night with Widgett’s ramshackle girls in some indescribable hotel
in Soho!
He had done his best not to think about her at all, but the situation and his
sister had become altogether too urgent. He HAD followed her! What had he followed her for? He must have
followed her all the way from beyond Grosvenor Square. She seemed to have
no idea whatever of the emotional states that were becoming to her age and
position. Ennison stood still for a
moment, swinging his latchkey upon his finger. “Let us sit down for a moment,” he had said. ‘Pray you, mademoiselle, can you not—’
‘No use trying to enlist Lucilla’s aid,’ snapped Roding. The very facts that Miss Miniver never stated an argument clearly, that she
was never embarrassed by a sense of self-contradiction, and had little more
respect for consistency of statement than a washerwoman has for wisps of vapor,
which made Ann Veronica critical and hostile at their first encounter in
Morningside Park, became at last with constant association the secret of Miss
Miniver’s growing influence. "To—to—no matter what," returned the widow distractedly. It’s your first evening, and early impressions do count for
so much.
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