She pulled him down by his lapels and arched her head readily towards his neck. For a few minutes he kept them at bay. Mary Remenham had passed on her every feature to the daughter whose advent had taken her from this world. It is so difficult. They were a dull grey, but the dark frizzed hair that framed her face was attractive. No doubt he knew enough of his world to recognise that he stood little chance against the word of a major of militia. Did he intend to kill her now, this instant? Or had she a moment or two to try to save herself? Recalling Leonardo’s dictum, she did not struggle, for that would only tighten the trap about her, and perhaps even spring it. Look at the cock’s feathers, look at the competition there is everywhere, except among humans. Ann Veronica thought it was a spontaneous release of energy expressive of wellbeing, but Ramage thought that by dancing, men, and such birds and animals as dance, come to feel and think of their bodies. I change them in the morning at Cannon Street, and take my book as I come down. From the point of view of most things in the world of employment which a woman can do reasonably well and earn a living by, you’re unripe and half-educated. So presently they got into a hansom together, and Ann Veronica sat back feeling very luxurious and pleasant, and looked at the light and stir and misty glitter of the street traffic from under slightly drooping eyelids, while Ramage sat closer to her than he need have done, and glanced ever and again at her face, and made to speak and said nothing.
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