The quiet encounter and home-coming
Ann Veronica and she had contemplated was entirely disorganized by this
misadventure; there were no adequate explanations, and after they had settled
things at Ann Veronica’s lodgings, they reached home in the early afternoon
estranged and depressed, with headaches and the trumpet voice of the
indomitable Kitty Brett still ringing in their ears. Queens and Kings, as
always, were made to be manipulated. She admired and rather pitied him, and she was
unfeignedly grateful to him. McClintock sent his yacht over for
us this morning. ’
‘Yes, I’m sorry about that,’ Gerald uttered in a rueful tone. “And to-night we are friends?”
“We are friends,” said Ann Veronica, and drew her hand quickly away from
him. ‘Bon. It was not so uncommon back in the
Hebrides for men to take several wives and additional
lovers. ”
“We will go together,” she answered. Deep
verandas ran around the bungalows, with bamboo drops which were always
down in the daytime, fending off the treacherous sunshine. He stopped on the curb-stone, not facing her
but as if he was on his way to cross the road, and spoke to her suddenly over his
shoulder. ’
‘Yes, but I do not wish to have a mystery. ”
“That is why they hissed me, then?”
“Of course. You Americans
laugh at our custom of honouring our ancestors, our many-times great
grandfathers. "
"Tell it.
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