Are you going to have any apple-tart,
Stanley? The apple-tart’s been very good lately—very good!”
Part 7
At the end of dinner that evening Ann Veronica began: “Father!”
Her father looked at her over his glasses and spoke with grave deliberation;
“If there is anything you want to say to me,” he said, “you must say it in the
study. “Still, since it is better to tell you, Sir John is
very much in earnest, but his respectability is something altogether too
overpowering. The slow stars circled on to the moment of
their meeting. I've often regretted that I didn't investigate the matter. ”
Ann Veronica was deciding for further confidences. Retribution has a queer way
of acting sometimes. How she needed him!
Next moment, she had wrenched open the door, and was confronting her
guard. ”
He shrugged his shoulders. Capes stood side by side upon an old Persian carpet that
did duty as a hearthrug in the dining-room of their flat and surveyed a shining
dinner-table set for four people, lit by skilfully-shaded electric lights, brightened
by frequent gleams of silver, and carefully and simply adorned with sweet-pea
blossom. A spacious suite of rooms down the hall John
described as “my parents love den” with a grimace as
Lucy smiled. Unless it was a
jewel or locket of some kind. “Never mind, old chap,” he declared.
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