A moment before he had been a strong man, she had been in his power, a poor helpless thing. ‘I do not know how you think you may help me,’ she said slowly. He appeared suddenly from the infinite in the neighborhood of the Burlington Arcade, crossing the pavement toward her and with his eyes upon her. “Holcroft,” he remarked, “in bald language, and with the usual limitations of his clouded intellect, has still given some slight expression to the consternation which I believe I may say is general amongst us. She was gone. We looked upon you, my dear Sir John, with reverence, almost with awe. “Look here,” he cried out of a silence, with a sudden flash of understanding, “did you mean to throw me over when you came out with me this afternoon?” Ann Veronica hesitated, and with a startled mind realized the truth. Jack hastily retreated, and taking the first means of concealment that occurred to him, descended the cellar steps. This was not the sort of confession which he had been expecting.
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