A smile flickered
upon her lips as she glanced towards Brendon, who was very serious indeed. To call yourself ‘Alcide’! Your hair, your gestures, your voice, all
mine! Oh, how dared you do it?”
“You must not forget,” Anna said calmly, “that it is necessary for me also—to
live. No matter what they do, always someone to
bolster them up, to lend them money, and to coddle them. There are sentimental and traditional deferences and
reverences, I know, between father and son; but that’s just exactly what prevents
the development of an easy friendship. "
"Possibly not," replied Thames, in some confusion; "but I am not at liberty to
speak. She was a very elegant young woman,
slightly taller perhaps than her sister, and with an air of reserved strength
underneath her quiet face and manner which Annabel may have lacked. But
if you mean to take me to this Gérard, I shall know what to say to him. He was just getting cross about your being late for dinner—you
know his way—when it came. Outside stood a
stocky, combat boot-clad girl of seventeen with a teased
mass of spiky bottle-black hair.
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