“My mind is full of confused stuff,” he said at length. It began as a joke. “Life—things—I don’t think her prospects now—Hopeful outlook. Oblige me by acting under my guidance in the matter, Sir Rowland. Manning,” she said, “for a time—Will you tell no one? Will you keep this—our secret? I’m doubtful—Will you please not even tell my aunt?” “As you will,” he said. I think that I will tell you. “I’m rather a persistent person. “Go on,” he said. She closed her eyes more vividly to recall some line which had carried the blot. “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. The place to which you went was not the English Embassy, and the whole performance was a fraud. What do you think people will make of that? What will this lover of yours make of that?” At intervals Ann Veronica demanded to go, declaring her undying resolve to repay him at any cost, and made short movements doorward. The hardest bout I ever had was with a woman—Sally Wells, who was afterwards lagged for shoplifting.
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