Annabel had taken her life into her hands with gay insouciance, had made her own friends, gone her own way. “I propose,” Sir John said, “that we pay for our dinner—which we haven’t had— tip the garçon a sovereign, and take a cab to the Ritz. Sir James Thornhill's preparations being completed, Mr. He looked at Annabel, whose face was buried in her hands— he looked back at Anna, who was regarding him with an easy composure which secretly irritated him. He did not move. ‘You are rude, and stupide, and altogether a person with whom I do not wish to speak. There was a little pause between them, full for Ann Veronica of rapid elusive suspicions and intimations. “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. ’ ‘Certainly he is not a friend,’ Melusine agreed, ‘but he has gone, after all. I am five-and-thirty, and I have knocked about in the world and tasted the quality of life. It is no good waiving the thing; it is true.
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