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It worked. “FAIL!” she said. ”
“There’s quite enough still,” said Ann Veronica, smiling, “that one doesn’t
understand. He had just arrived from Manchester, whence he had been
summoned by that treacherous thief-taker. ’”
“Yes?”
“I think—yes, I went on in a pleasing blend of the casual and sotto voce, ‘The
fact of it is, sir, I happen to be your son-in-law, Capes. ‘Taken the girl with him. Rows of roasted duck, brilliantly varnished; luscious vegetables, which
she had been warned against; baskets of melon seed and water-chestnuts; men
working in teak and blackwood; fan makers and jade cutters; eggs preserved in
what appeared to her as petrified muck; bird's nests and shark fins. The flight. The slack of her ridinghabit and full under-petticoats was gathered into her left hand, and her booted
ankles were visible as she held the skirts well out of her way. ”
“As long as you remain under my roof—” he began, and paused. But after all, what did it matter
whether she had secrets or not? To him she was not a woman but a symbol; and
one did not investigate the antecedents of symbols. If only this child were his:
what good times they would have together! The thought passed on, but it left a
little ache in his heart. ’
‘I’m afraid you are right. It was apparent, and then it faded into the quality of an inevitable necessity.
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