He worked afternoons,
when everybody else went to sleep; he worked at night under a heat-giving light,
with insects buzzing and dropping about, with a blue haze of tobacco smoke that
tried to get out and could not. That was one of the compensations for
having consigned himself to this part of the world. ‘Good, good—and not before time,’ muttered Roding, glancing round again. “This is Mr. I think that I am very fortunate to have it to sign. I
can assure you, Anna, it will take me years to get decently established. You need not tell me, but a lawyer is different. The very facts that Miss Miniver never stated an argument clearly, that she
was never embarrassed by a sense of self-contradiction, and had little more
respect for consistency of statement than a washerwoman has for wisps of vapor,
which made Ann Veronica critical and hostile at their first encounter in
Morningside Park, became at last with constant association the secret of Miss
Miniver’s growing influence. She brought her hands up to her head and ripped out
two long chunks of her hair, pulling out shreds of scalp. ’
‘Good. Once in the room, the door locked, the sense of loneliness had dropped away
from her as the mists used to drop away from the mountain in the morning.
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