”
Ann Veronica turned her back on the Michaelmas daisies, and faced toward
the house with an air of a duty completed. Why should he
stare at her in this fashion?—for all the world as if she had pointed a pistol at his
head?
CHAPTER III
He had said it, spoken it like that … his own name! After all these weeks of
trying to obliterate even the memory of it!… to have given it to this girl without
her asking!
The thought of peril cleared a space in the alcoholic fog. “Yes. ”
He stared at her, trying to guess at the mystery of her thoughts. “You must have heard—have you—oh, tell
me, won’t you?” she begged. The birds were singing blithely amid the trees,—the
lowing of the cows resounded from the yard,—a delicious perfume from the
garden was wafted through the open window,—at a distance, the church-bells of
Willesden were heard tolling for evening service. . All
right! I’m off. Their idea of maidenly
innocence was just a blank white—the sort of flat white that doesn’t shine. He was and always would be dramatizing his
emotions; perpetually he would be confounding his actual with his imaginary
self. As she danced there was in
her ears the faded echo of wooden tom-toms. Hugging them, they crept
stealthily around the house, Major Alderley leading, and wasting—so his captain
acidly commented—a deal of time checking the windows and doors.
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