The sense of publicity, of people coming and going about them, kept them
both unemotional. One main avenue was for her to become a sort of salaried accessory
wife or mother, to be a governess or an assistant schoolmistress, or a very high
type of governess-nurse. She had flung away from her father’s support with
the finest assumption of personal independence. "
"Did Ah Cum advise you?"
"He did pretty well for a Chinaman. However, confession of a fault makes half
amends for it. “More than that, he arrived to-day at the
boarding-house where I am staying, greeted me with a theatrical start, and
claimed me—as his wife. "
"You are heiress to the Trenchard property," rejoined Jonathan, "one of the
largest estates in Lancashire. And go quickly that I may
finish to search. “It was very tiring. Ann Veronica glanced at the mirror to discover a flushed and dishevelled
disorder.
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