She had
but to choose. She grasped at the right one,
massaging where his grip had been and Gerald hoped he had not bruised her. Her
voice was weak and flat. She let go of him and stood up,
straightening herself. And God had let him do it! He was—and
now he perfectly understood that he was—treading the queerest labyrinth a man
had ever entered. “But my dear Ann Veronica, you will be getting into debt!”
Ann Veronica at once, and with a feeling of immense relief, took refuge in her
dignity. Part 7
The steps by which Ann Veronica determined to engage herself to marry
Manning were never very clear to her. To think of him as loving her would make all that
different. For the rest, she derived her
ideas of the married state from the observed behavior of married women, which
impressed her in Morningside Park as being tied and dull and inelastic in
comparison with the life of the young, and from a remarkably various reading
among books. “If you wish,” he said, “I will go there in the morning and see what can be done
for him. Ireton," cried Jack, in accents of the most urgent entreaty, "before you take
me hence, I implore you—if you would further the ends of justice—search this
house. It had a
tiny flaw, most bizarre. There she would wander about in the kindly darkness. She
lunched at a creamery in Great Portland Street, and as the day was full of wintry
sunshine, spent the rest of the lunch-hour in a drowsy gloom, which she
imagined to be thought upon the problems of her position, on a seat in Regent’s
Park. Prudence? Mr Remenham’s sister that was.
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