”
Michelle mulled over Lucy’s words thoughtfully. Hetty, looking out of the window—she always smoked her after-breakfast
cigarette at the window for the benefit of the less advanced section of
Morningside Park society—and trying not to raise objections, saw Miss Stanley
going down toward the shops. Mrs. ’
‘Oui, mais—’
‘You are, without exception, the most unprincipled, the most unscrupulous, the
most shameless, immoral, devious—’
‘Pardon me, sir,’ burst in Mrs Ibstock suddenly, her tone belligerent, bringing
the captain’s tirade to an abrupt halt as he turned to glare at her. He was all alone, too. ‘As a matter of fact, I’m not at all sympathique. Ann Veronica was one of the
few young people—and one must have young people just as one must have
flowers—one could ask to a little gathering without the risk of a painful discord. The lamp was not yet lit, and in the dim light he
bent forward as though trying to look into her averted face. Tell me that you are not
sorry to see me again. "I've won, after
all. Ann Veronica blushed. ‘And why not?’
‘Because,’ Gerald said matter of factly, ‘convent-bred jeune demoiselles do
not commonly know how to handle either pistols or daggers. When they were home, the pair headed for
the Big Apple or the warmth of the Beck’s family table. So often as she had herself
manipulated a dagger, she could not mistake the shape that pressured across her
chest, or the sharp point that dug below her bosom.
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