”
“And leave you here alone?” he asked, in a hoarse whisper. "
"Ask them, all of them, and I will gladly answer. "I didn't awake you, because you seemed tired. "Where are you going?" she asked. At least until we
graduate. Playing became a way of escape. When I carried you up here like a bride, that is the
way I wanted us to be, Mary Lucia. “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. ‘That—that—why do you
speak of him?’
‘Because I feel you ought to know,’ Gerald said calmly, but rising and
watching her closely, ‘that all your trouble may be in vain.
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