But the relief
from the strain of her immediate necessities was immense. “I hope you’re satisfied. They seemed the most
wrapped things in all Ann Veronica’s wrappered world. ‘Would you care for some refreshment? A glass of wine, perhaps?’
‘Nothing, merci, I do not remain,’ she answered, although she did not rise. Stanley, having pretended
to linger to smoke, fled suddenly up-stairs to petrography, and when Veronica
tapped he answered through the locked door, “Go away, Vee! I’m busy,” and
made a lapidary’s wheel buzz loudly. You are queerly educated; and it strikes me that your father had some
definite purpose in thus educating you. She had come across the
wicked South Seas which were still infested with cannibals; she had seen
drunkenness and called men beachcombers; who was this moment as innocent as
a babe, and in the next uttered some bitter wisdom it had taken a thousand years
of philosophy to evolve. How dreary it all looks. "He hears me not! he's gone!"
she added, as the door was opened and shut with violence; "something tells me I
shall never see him again!"
When her father, a moment afterwards, issued from the parlour to ascertain the
cause of the noise, he found her seated on the stairs, in an agony of grief. The back of the house
had been the Alps for climbing, and the shrubs in front of it a Terai. But she certainly remembered that when she was a
little girl he sometimes wore tennis flannels, and also rode a bicycle very
dexterously in through the gates to the front door.
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