"I don't see why I should be obliged to pay for doing
my duty. ”
Part 7
It was rather less than a week after that walk that Capes came and sat down
beside Ann Veronica for their customary talk in the lunch hour. I had gone
further than I meant to—with some Englishmen. She became aware of the Scotch student regarding her
with stupendous amazement, a tea-cup poised in one hairy hand and his faceted
glasses showing a various enlargement of segments of his eye. Blueskin and the Minters were dragging Wood to
the pump. I am aware that you ran away from
there, but—’
‘Certainly I ran away,’ she said, meeting his gaze with defiance in her own. "
"But, man, this chap hasn't fallen soft. There are sentimental and traditional deferences and
reverences, I know, between father and son; but that’s just exactly what prevents
the development of an easy friendship. The sing-song girl rose and meekly pattered out of the office into the
night. "
"Ha! hussy, dare you threaten?" cried Wild; but, checking himself, he turned to
Ireton and asked, "How long have the women been gone?"
"Scarcely five minutes," replied the latter. You’re such a strange girl. Imagination, coloured by the obscurity, peopled the air with phantoms.
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