He dressed rather after the fashion of the West End than the City, and
affected a cultured urbanity that somehow disconcerted and always annoyed Ann
Veronica’s father extremely. Moreover, she claims that
this whole enterprise of hers is purely for the purpose of marrying an
Englishman. The coach was slowing down, and he realised that they had arrived in Golden
Square. One hour later she
had gone back to the mission—without the salt. ’
The mention of Alderley’s name, as Roding had confidently expected, caused
the soldiers’ eyes to veer across to the young lady again, this time with a good
deal less sympathy, and much more uncertainty. He
had had five children at irregular intervals, of whom Ann Veronica was the
youngest, so that as a parent he came to her perhaps a little practised and jaded
and inattentive; and he called her his “little Vee,” and patted her unexpectedly
and disconcertingly, and treated her promiscuously as of any age between eleven
and eight-and-twenty. A fierce
struggle ensued. While he was straining every sinew, his foot slipped, and he fell, head foremost,
into a deep trench, which he had not observed in the dark. . She felt her chest trying to
float up, but the blessed undertow, the dreaded reason
why she was warned to never bathe in the ocean, sucked
her feet down, putting the decision where it belonged,
into the hands of God. She saw herself in very much Vivie’s position—managing something. Something about this woman rather reminds me of our
hostess. I love you all the more for the streak of
sheer devil in you.
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