However, confession of a fault makes half
amends for it. ‘Yes, only that this consolation he had
found before he married my mother. Some of my
schemes are already in hand. Anna lets the deception continue and has to bear the
burden of her sister’s reputation which, in Paris at any rate, is that of being a
coquette. The
whole incident was so unexpected that neither Courtlaw nor Brendon were
awaiting. “I made two fruit
pies and now I have no one to eat them. “Listen,” she said. He looked at Annabel, whose face was buried in her hands—
he looked back at Anna, who was regarding him with an easy composure which
secretly irritated him. . How will I get an Englishman to wed me if they know that I
behave not at all comme il faut?’
‘Perhaps the Englishman in question will not care,’ suggested Prudence, with a
twinkle in her eye for which Melusine was quite unable to account. ”
“It’s impossible. “Think of what Lady Palsworthy will say! Think of what”—So-and-so
—“will say! What are we to tell people?
“Besides, what am I to tell your father?”
At first it had not been at all clear to Ann Veronica that she would refuse to
return home; she had had some dream of a capitulation that should leave her an
enlarged and defined freedom, but as her aunt put this aspect and that of her
flight to her, as she wandered illogically and inconsistently from one urgent
consideration to another, as she mingled assurances and aspects and emotions, it
became clearer and clearer to the girl that there could be little or no change in the
position of things if she returned.
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