She was trying to bring her problems to a head, and her
mind insisted upon being even more discursive and atmospheric than usual. 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. Think, ma’am. "
"But you are educated!"—astonished. "In case he should, I say," continued Thames, "will you promise to let Jack
Sheppard take my place in your affections, Winny?"
"Never!" replied the little damsel, "I can never love any one so much as you. I'll be at the Cross Shovels in the course of the day. ’
‘And was not she put out?’ demanded Miss Froxfield with a tinkling laugh. ’ Reminiscence made him
smile. "Who's there?" cried Rachel. "
"What?" said the doctor, whose thoughts were in something of a turmoil. Was not Gerald altogether on her side? He
was, even though he played games like an imbecile, a person tout à fait
sympathique as she had discovered at the outset. What lends a tragic mockery to all these tender traps of hers was that she
was within lawful bounds. “You have not seen your sister lately,” he remarked. “I throw it out in
passing,” he said.
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