After dinner Ann Veronica went into the
drawing-room with Miss Stanley, and her father went up to his den for his pipe
and pensive petrography. She glanced at him and made a dismissive gesture. "
"Hold your tongue!" cried Mrs. How came you to know it? Have you
heard the name before?"
"I think I have—long, long ago, when I was a child," replied Mrs. Wood; "to be sure you are! I wonder how you dare
show your face in this house, hussy!"
"I thought you sent for me, Ma'am," replied the widow, humbly. “Oh, there’s no doubt of it! Since the girls of the eighties broke bounds and
sailed away on bicycles—my young days go back to the very beginnings of that
—it’s been one triumphant relaxation. All this juncture, a thundering crash was heard against the side of the bridge. "
"How so?" asked Thames.
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