"I guessed what was coming. Prudence twinkled at them, and reached out to pat Melusine’s hand. She realized more and more the quality of the brink upon which she stood—the dreadful readiness with which in certain moods she might plunge, the unmitigated wrongness and recklessness of such a self-abandonment. She touched bow to strings, playing a fifth. ‘He could have little comfort there, indeed. In the midst of this light stood a young woman. ’ ‘Pah! Am I a fool? Have you not this moment past said how he did not?’ Agitation sent her to her feet. He had had five children at irregular intervals, of whom Ann Veronica was the youngest, so that as a parent he came to her perhaps a little practised and jaded and inattentive; and he called her his “little Vee,” and patted her unexpectedly and disconcertingly, and treated her promiscuously as of any age between eleven and eight-and-twenty. ’ ‘Parbleu,’ exclaimed the girl, jumping up in some dudgeon.
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