The figure of the girl upon it in plain black dress, standing with
her hands behind her, was an undeniable and astonishing likeness of herself. The thought of
their faces, and particularly of her aunt’s, as it would meet the fact—
disconcerted, unfriendly, condemning, pained—occurred to her again and again. I begin to
understand Jane Austen and chintz covers and decency and refinement and all
the rest of it. “Thanks, Mister McCloskey. ’
‘Nonsense,’ said Mrs Sindlesham loudly, casting an anxious glance upon
Melusine. She looked at him gravely and squinted. He spent the remainder of the afternoon looking for a friend whom he found at
last in the billiard room of one of the smaller clubs to which he belonged. We find out no man will treat
a woman fairly as man to man—no man. She was quite assured that she would never see
him again. ‘Suppose you don’t know what sort of proof she was after?’ he asked. ‘I’ll take wine,’ the lady said briefly, turning back instantly to Hilary. ”
“Why?” asked Hetty. ”
John introduced her to couple after couple, a dizzying
array of new people that she could not catalogue in her
memory quickly enough.
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