In this moment he could have stamped upon the Wastrel's face, and ended
the affair; but all that was clean in him, chivalrous, revolted at the thought. ” She
replied informally. Ann
Veronica stared at his foolish, propitiatory smile, his hungry gaze, through one
moment of amazement, then stepped aside and went on her way with a
quickened step. Her husband had caught her leaning over a precipice
into the ruins of the oubliette, and had punished her by
flogging her back with a switch. It was her past now, not Annabel’s. ”
“I still——”
Anna stopped short. But there was an abiding serpent in this Eden. To-night she had a
curious feeling that she stood upon the threshold of some change. There’s plenty to be got out of life in a decent sort of way. Annabel
half filled her glass with wine, and taking a little folded packet from her plate,
shook the contents into it. The manager had
sketched the girl's character, or rather had interpreted it, from the incidents
which had happened since dinner. Melusine was loath to admit how
much more lonely since Gerald chose not to visit her.
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