Ann Veronica felt suddenly an effect of tremendous
pathos; she would have given anything to have been able to frame and make
some appeal, some utterance that should bridge this bottomless chasm that had
opened between her and her father, and she could find nothing whatever to say
that was in the least sincere and appealing. White, who had risen to greet
her, proceeded with a formal, and from Anna’s point of view, a wholly
unnecessary round of introductions. \"Yes, she may stay for dinner if it is all right with her
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parents. Yes, I think we have thoroughly thrashed that one
out. She looked away. "Not in the least," returned Kneebone, slyly, "not in the least. ”
She watched his face as he traced his way through these speculative thickets. I’ve accustomed myself to think of you—
as if you were like every other girl who works at the schools—as something
quite outside these possibilities. And there," he added, placing in his hands a heavy bag of money, and a pocketbook, "is a sum little short of fifteen thousand pounds. To-morrow we'll raise our first island. ” She distantly
remembered moments in childhood spent in phobic
trance, when her father had told her God was punishing
sinners in Hell. ”
She made some inane response. They stopped talking, except to each
other.
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