Then she looked at her aunt, and traced with a curious eye the careful arrangement of her hair, her sharp nose, the little drooping lines of mouth and chin and cheek. ‘You dare to come to me? What do you wish of me? Why have you come? I do not want you!’ She swept round on Gerald abruptly and he braced for the onslaught. Ann Veronica wiped a scalpel, put a card over a watch-glass containing thin shreds of embryonic guinea-pig swimming in mauve stain, and dismantled her microscope. How she learned of her heritage I do not know, but you need not imagine that it is greed that drives her. “I think we are growing sensible,” he said. He drove her home that night, kissing her again and again at stoplights. White’s surprise as she swung easily down the room, followed by the two young men, she smiled a careless explanation at her. “Very well,” said Ann Veronica, with an air of concluding the discussion. Suddenly she became worthy of attention again and her husband teased her and joked with her as Sebastian openly admired her beauty, teasing her and patting her shoulders, pulling off her headscarf. She went to her own table and sat down. One morning, as he took his stand on the Hong-Kong packet dock to ambush the possible tourist, he witnessed the arrival of a tubby schooner, dirty gray and blotched as though she had run through fire. "Ay, to business," returned Jonathan, grinning, "the sooner the better. It would be an ice storm by midnight if it did not let up.
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