” He read it in winter in the evening after dinner, and Ann Veronica
associated it with a tendency to monopolize the lamp, and to spread a very worn
pair of dappled fawn-skin slippers across the fender. Kneebone, he took his
departure. Businesswomen
in pointy-toed shoes swooned coyly in his direction,
tipping their noses over their glossy magazines to admire
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him. "Mother!" she echoed,—"mother! why do you call me by that name?"
"Because you are my mother. She said”—Ann Veronica shivered again—“‘I hope
it won’t make you uncomfortable, my dear’—like that—‘and whatever you do,
do be careful of your hair!’ I think—I judge from her manner—that she thought
it was just a little indelicate of us—considering everything; but she tried to be
practical and sympathetic and live down to our standards. "Where are the packets committed to your
charge by Sir Rowland Trenchard?"
"The packets!" exclaimed Kneebone, in alarm. If you don't conquer this disgraceful propensity in time, you'll
soon come to want; and then nothing can save you. “You were seen to leave the flat, and your
handkerchief was found there. “How dare you!”
They were both astonished at the other’s strength. Ann Veronica was excited and puzzled, with a sense of a strange and
disconcerting new light breaking over her relations with Ramage. What!—
you know so little of that child? She ran away from you. "I will, when I catch him, rely on it," rejoined Wild. She
descended the stairs, and found herself at last in the street—alone. Stars
appeared in the periphery of her vision.
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