A
familiar ache of wanting made itself more insistent in her
belly. Mind you don't stir till supper's over. ‘I might have killed you,’ she snapped, ‘if only you did not say anything. ‘Oh, ah. I have seen you with Anna, and I have not
known whether to be glad or sorry. ‘I
wonder why the females of my acquaintance have absolutely no respect
whatsoever for male authority?’
‘Ha!’ came from Hilary. It
reached her only slowly that Ann Veronica was standing to her resolution. “I look older. She carried herself well, whereas her brother slouched, and there
was a certain aristocratic dignity about her that she had acquired through her
long engagement to a curate of family, a scion of the Wiltshire Edmondshaws. She tried for
her usual confident tone, but only succeeded in sounding gruff, even to her own
ears. ’
‘Ah, but there’s the little matter of your presence here,’ said Gerald on a note
of apology. Ann Veronica was much impressed by a mighty trying on and altering and
fussing about Alice’s “things”—Alice was being re-costumed from garret to
cellar, with a walking-dress and walking-boots to measure, and a bride’s costume
of the most ravishing description, and stockings and such like beyond the dreams
of avarice—and a constant and increasing dripping into the house of irrelevant
remarkable objects, such as—
Real lace bedspread;
Gilt travelling clock;
Ornamental pewter plaque;
Salad bowl (silver mounted) and servers;
Madgett’s “English Poets” (twelve volumes), bound purple morocco;
Etc. I was at work at it yesterday and the day before. ”
The full significance of her words did not instantly appear to him. 1.
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