He’s waiting. She had been built
for canvas and oil-lamps, and this new thingumajig that kept her nose snoring at
eight knots when normally she was able to boil along at ten, and these
unblinking things they called lamps (that neither smoked nor smelled), irked and
threatened to ruin her temper. There was little more here than a sideboard, a chest for the vestments, and a
simple wooden chair. “I wonder,” said Ann Veronica at last, “if I am beautiful? I wonder if I shall
ever shine like a light, like a translucent goddess?—
“I wonder—
“I suppose girls and women have prayed for this, have come to this—In
Babylon, in Nineveh. Spurlock slumped in his chair, weak and empty. ’
‘I’m hanged if I can make out either of you,’ complained Hilary. ”
“There will be some coffee and music in the drawing-room in a few minutes,”
Mrs.
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