Then they discoursed on love for a time, and Alderman Dunstable, turning
back to the shy, blond young man and speaking in undertones of the utmost
clearness, gave a brief and confidential account of an unfounded rumor of the
bifurcation of the affections of Blinders that had led to a situation of some
unpleasantness upon the Borough Council. "But, however, it may
turn out, I disown you. Why? While the
front of his mind was busy warning her not to fall into the hopeless miseries of
underpaid teaching, and explaining his idea that for women of initiative, quite as
much as for men, the world of business had by far the best chances, the back
chambers of his brain were busy with the problem of that “Why?”
His first idea as a man of the world was to explain her unrest by a lover, some
secret or forbidden or impossible lover. ”
“You have to kill people. ”
But Ann Veronica was by no means sure of that until she went over to
Wamblesmith and saw her sister, very remote and domestic and authoritative, in
a becoming tea-gown, in command of Doctor Ralph’s home. “It’s settled. ’
‘Why should I?’
‘Because I can’t live without you!’
‘That is your own affair, and—’
Melusine broke off, staring at him, shocked realisation kicking in her gut. . She would not be driven in by this persistent,
sneaking aggression. ”
Ennison hesitated for a moment. "
The Chinaman paused. “Cheer up, Annabel. The curtain came festooning slowly down, the music ceased, the lights in the
auditorium glowed out, and Ann Veronica woke out of her confused dream of
involuntary and commanding love in a glory of sound and colors to discover that
Ramage was sitting close beside her with one hand resting lightly on her waist.
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