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‘Remenham House,’ exclaimed Trodger, who had been watching this
interchange open-mouthed. For a time she could scarcely believe he was gone. “But, how,” he said, sitting up astonished beyond measure, “not go on?”
“I have been thinking while you have been talking. Look! Is that some one
coming out?”
The front door of the flats stood open, and through it a woman, slim and veiled,
passed on to the pavement and turned with swift footsteps in the opposite
direction. For the first time he seemed to wonder what it might be that she had to
confess. Ann Veronica had come to the Imperial College obsessed by the great figure
of Russell, by the part he had played in the Darwinian controversies, and by the
resolute effect of the grim-lipped, yellow, leonine face beneath the mane of
silvery hair. "In case he should, I say," continued Thames, "will you promise to let Jack
Sheppard take my place in your affections, Winny?"
"Never!" replied the little damsel, "I can never love any one so much as you. It was
not only that her father had said all sorts of inconsistent and unreasonable things,
but that by some incomprehensible infection she herself had replied in the same
vein.
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