Then making a pretence of stooping to rearrange her flowing train, she glanced at Anna, and half stopped in her progress down the room. The girl who had just left the room was as great a mystery to him now as on the afternoon when he had met her in Piccadilly and taken her to tea. Influenced, probably, by what he had heard from Mr. “You poor child!” he said; “don’t you see the infinite folly of these proceedings? Think! Think of the love and affection you abandon! Think of your aunt, a second mother to you. ‘What is it that you told him?’ ‘Nothing, miss, I swear. Probably the latter, for the thronging ballroom was insufferably hot. You might tell the truth to some men, but never to him. But death is better for them, since they’re orphans now!” He screamed. She drew a chair to the window and stared at the splendour of the tropical night. It may be instinctive; it may be that children vaguely realize that at the end of all wedding journeys is disillusion. "I shall be back presently," replied Thames, evasively. Even now he was not at all sure that she was not playing with him. And now, my angel, that I am acquainted with your sentiments on this subject, I shall readily fulfil a promise which I made to your lamented parent, whose loss I shall ever deplore.
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