‘Then he went stark staring crazy, if you ask me. ’
The possibility was indeed remote, for there had been no trouble with France
since the Peace of Versailles had been signed six years ago. “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. "I've spoken. “Lucy, do you forgive me?”
She looked at him in earnest. “I am going to ask for
your forgiveness. All this torrent of
misleading, spurious stuff that pours from the press. It’s no good flying out at that, Vee; I didn’t arrange it. Neither he nor Gerald chose to attire
themselves in full military rig on fashionable occasions such as this. The young man entered into a lively little war of words with a yellow-haired
young person near the door. Wild had escaped.
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