But anything is better than this. Kneebone,"
returned Shotbolt. “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. ”
She shocked him by that. ‘Do you think I do not know? What am I doing here, do you think?’
‘That’s just exactly what I’ve been asking myself,’ he returned. Arrived in Paris she remembered that she had not the money for a fiacre. And
when she learned that she had been doubly cheated, what then? His thoughts
began to fall on her side of the scales, and his own misery grew lighter as he
anticipated hers. ”
“Can’t we go down into Italy?”
“No,” he said; “it won’t run to that now. You should have confided in me, and fallen in with my plan at the beginning. "
He paused, and not without malice.
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