Winifred receives two Proposals
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VII. Supposing the
wire should break and her head tumble off her shoulders into the street? The
whimsey caused another smile to ripple across her lips. ”
But Ann Veronica was by no means sure of that until she went over to
Wamblesmith and saw her sister, very remote and domestic and authoritative, in
a becoming tea-gown, in command of Doctor Ralph’s home. She had begun to care about
her appearance again, looking into the glass he gave her, a
thing nearly priceless that was bordered in intricate
golden filigree and rubies. A lesson learned. For that matter, my future be
damned. Neither would she allow herself
to feel guilty nor would she allow him to find a way into
the house. Then, if you weren’t looking,
he’d get five feet closer. While you live in my
house you must follow my ideas. These sweeping dignities were
not within the compass of her will; she remembered she liked Ramage, and owed
things to him, and she was interested—she was profoundly interested.
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