All this—
the island and its affairs—was an old story; but her own peculiar distaste had
vanished to a point imperceptible, for she was seeing the island through her
husband's eyes, as in the future she would see all things. From this sorrowful state he was aroused by a loud derisive whistle, followed by
a still louder laugh; and, looking up, he beheld the impudent countenance of Jack
Sheppard immediately before him. To a woman she might have confided; but
to this man, kindly as he was, it was unthinkable. Lucy entered the
house by picking the back door lock with the slim jim. ‘Parbleu, the house, is it broken in the least? I do
not think so. They had been
informally introduced during floor hockey, when Katy
had sent a puck flying into Lucy’s face. ’ Then she frowned. But it would serve. The thought of Capes flooded her being like long-veiled sunlight breaking
again through clouds. Sebastian howled
with laughter, doubling over. There are so many girls nowadays who are quite unpresentable at
tea, with their untrimmed laughs, their awful dispositions of their legs when they
sit down, their slangy disrespect; they no longer smoke, it is true, like the girls of
the eighties and nineties, nevertheless to a fine intelligence they have the flavor
of tobacco. But the
restraint exercised by her instinctive delicacy was very great; over and above
coarse or sexual matters it covered religion and politics and any mention of
money matters or crime, and Ann Veronica found herself wondering whether
these exclusions represented, after all, anything more than suppressions.
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