‘What started you off, you madman,’ Roding told him frankly, as he set about
tying his handkerchief around the wound, ‘was being born at all. I'll have to put some pep into the game—
American pep. "Your audacity passes belief," cried the latter, as soon as his surprise would
allow him utterance. She went down, flushed and light-hearted, to the Widgetts’
after lunch to make some final arrangements and then, as soon as her aunt had
retired to lie down for her usual digestive hour, took the risk of the servants
having the enterprise to report her proceedings and carried her bag and hold-all
to the garden gate, whence Teddy, in a state of ecstatic service, bore them to the
railway station. Do you mean to tell me you didn’t understand why I wanted you to come
here?”
“Not a bit of it,” said Ann Veronica stoutly. My mind is full of ideas and images that I have been cherishing
and accumulating—dreams of travelling side by side, of lunching quietly
together in some jolly restaurant, of moonlight and music and all that side of life,
of seeing you dressed like a queen and shining in some brilliant throng—mine;
of your looking at flowers in some old-world garden, our garden—there are
splendid places to be got down in Surrey, and a little runabout motor is quite
within my means. "
"I'd rather lie here for ever, than be indebted to you for my freedom," returned
Thames. ‘In the bookroom, sir,’ answered the man, his eyes round as they took in the
furious beauty at the visitor’s side. The spy—if there was one hiding out in the late Jarvis
Remenham’s empty house—would be taken unawares. On the next morning—Sunday—the day
on which he expected his mother's funeral to take place, he set out along the
Harrow Road.
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