The particulars of her engagement were very clear in her memory. He gripped the window-sill behind him. ‘Thank you,’ she said, leaning heavily on his arm for a moment. Instinctively she had fallen into the posture of the poster,
her hands behind her, her head bent slightly forward, her chin uplifted, her eyes
bright with the drollery of the song. One glance swept across the place
and it was immediately apparent that Pottiswick had not, this time, been
mistaken. “Think of what Lady Palsworthy will say! Think of what”—So-and-so
—“will say! What are we to tell people?
“Besides, what am I to tell your father?”
At first it had not been at all clear to Ann Veronica that she would refuse to
return home; she had had some dream of a capitulation that should leave her an
enlarged and defined freedom, but as her aunt put this aspect and that of her
flight to her, as she wandered illogically and inconsistently from one urgent
consideration to another, as she mingled assurances and aspects and emotions, it
became clearer and clearer to the girl that there could be little or no change in the
position of things if she returned. ’
Footsteps sounded just outside, and Captain Roding walked in.
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