Manning,”
she said, “for a time—Will you tell no one? Will you keep this—our secret? I’m
doubtful—Will you please not even tell my aunt?”
“As you will,” he said. Certainly not a gentlewoman. Gerald’s judgement was borne out a
moment later. Heaven knows what dim and tawdry conceptions of passion and desire were
in that blond cranium, what romance-begotten dreams of intrigue and adventure!
but they sufficed, when presently Ann Veronica went out into the darkling street
again, to inspire a flitting, dogged pursuit, idiotic, exasperating, indecent. “A bad thing
for me when that legacy came. His eyes flashed
as he turned towards her. She hated tricking Shari,
whose joy for life was the only thing that made her naive
enough to fall for laced iced tea or hot cocoa, depending
on the season. He was never known to err, and was as much dreaded as the jailfever in consequence. But the indecision,
which had been fatal to his race, was fatal to him. And she was about as capable of intelligent argument as a runaway
steam-roller.
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