Books were always sliding
and slipping, clumsy objects to hold. Jack affected to close the door, but left it
slightly ajar. He had
made it even easier by walking up the steps instead of
taking the elevator. Barring that
the Valade fellow had sneaked back. “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. On this second excursion, forewarned, she would use no light and keep as
quiet as a mouse, she vowed, and thus refrain from attracting the attention of the
militia at the gates.
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