What had Brewis Charvill to say to that, Gerald?’
‘He had nothing to say to it. ‘Nothing. It’s
too valiant, Miss Stanley, too valiant altogether!”
Ann Veronica meditated. I wanted
to have something to give up. She
seemed just as stiff and shy as a girl ought to be, Lady Palsworthy thought,
neither garrulous nor unready, and free from nearly all the heavy aggressiveness,
the overgrown, overblown quality, the egotism and want of consideration of the
typical modern girl. They went down the great staircase of the building, and, while she sought in
her mind for a beginning, he broke into appreciation of her simple dress and selfcongratulations upon their engagement. “Rhea will
return soon. He cried out but his father only waved
280
like an automaton until the apparition disappeared. Ann Veronica looked bright and a little elated, and she disregarded her father’s
invitation to be seated. And a custom had grown up of a general tea at four o’clock,
under the auspices of a Miss Garvice, a tall and graceful girl of distinguished
intellectual incompetence, in whom the hostess instinct seemed to be abnormally
developed.
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