” Ann Veronica had remained standing while her aunt spoke. For the first time he seemed to wonder what it might be that she had to confess. I have an appetite which I dare not increase. After what seemed like an eternity he turned right onto a dirt road that ended unceremoniously at a copse of leafless trees. "Hold!" interposed Thames, "he can do no more mischief. You did not marry her because you loved her; you did not marry because she might have had money; you did not marry her out of gratitude; you did not marry her because you had to. It was the expression of Miss Klegg’s face that put the idea into Ann Veronica’s head of showing Manning at the College one day, an idea which she didn’t for some reason or other carry out for a fortnight. "Go!" said Lady Trafford; "it is my last request. The letter began: “MY DEAREST GIRL,—I cannot let you do this foolish thing—” She crumpled notes and letter together in her hand, and then with a passionate gesture flung them into the fire. "You tried to do something that was fine, and … and civilization would not let you. Any man might have endeavoured to protect himself in this fashion, a man with no one to care, with an unnameable terror at the thought (as if it mattered!) of being buried in alien earth, far from the familiar places he loved.
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