“That he should be in the same world with me!” said Ann Veronica, reduced
to reading the list of good things the British Tea-Table Company had priced for
its patrons. She pulled her
chair with a mild creak and marched towards the stair. ‘Major Gerald Alderley, mademoiselle, quite at your service. His face, as he
looked down where his hand sought for a weapon concealed in her petticoat, was
so close that she could see only the line of his firm jaw, the drag of his powdered
hair that drew it into the military pigtail, and the black ribbon that adorned it. Clarice was from Lombardy,
fair-haired and light skinned. “You were going to answer it?”
“Certainly not!” she said deliberately. Suddenly he felt Ruth swing violently away from him, and he wheeled to learn
the cause. ‘Yes, a very sad story,’ agreed the major. “To my chagrin, I have. It was a bogus affair
altogether, kept by some blackguard or other of an Englishman. She had been fighting down this thought for
days: that Hoddy did not care, that he did not love her, that he had mistaken a
vagary of the mind for a substance, and now regretted what he had done—
married a girl who was not his equal in anything. But God will punish you for what you have done this day. She was too delicate, too
fragile to survive out there. “I may go to Hatton House later, but you needn’t
wait. In one of these seats, at the end of the aisle
farthest removed from the chancel, the widow took her place, and addressed
herself fervently to her devotions.
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