It has been a real honeymoon trip, Annabel, for I feel that it has
given me a wife. Your
father is very angry, and will not have her name mentioned in his hearing. I have it
on my conscience that I offended you—”
“Offended me when?”
“I’ve been haunted by the memory of you. We can get absorbed
in play, in games, in the business we do. She could not be more than twenty; and though want and other
suffering had done the work of time, had wasted her frame, and robbed her
cheek of its bloom and roundness, they had not extinguished the lustre of her
eyes, nor thinned her raven hair. At least one of
them was caught and put away. A little relieved by this step
toward reinstatement, she went on to the Imperial College to forget her muddle
of problems for a time, if she could, in the presence of Capes. When she saw Ann Veronica she stood for a moment as if
entranced, and then advanced with outstretched hands. It
should be the happiest day of your life, and I would not detract from its
happiness by letting you remember for a moment that there are others to whom
your inevitable decision must bring some pain. ”
Annabel had been lying curled up on the lounge, the personification of graceful
animal ease. She taught him all the lore she had; about bird-life and tree-life and the changing
mysteries of the sea. ” Well, it was beyond dispute that
these words did convey a certain quality of the Movements in general amid
which Miss Miniver disported herself. We are nuns. I
don’t want a family in the suburbs and Christmases at the
Florida house and summers at the Hamptons. ”
“Lady Ferringhall—alone?” Ennison exclaimed.
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