‘We were wondering about
that. It was as if she had grown right past her father into
something older and of infinitely wider outlook, as if he had always been
unsuspectedly a flattened figure, and now she had discovered him from the other
side. “Oh, Ann
Veronica!” he cried, “I cannot let you go like this! You don’t understand. A bowl of roses, just brought by Ann Veronica, adorned the communal
dressing-table, and Ann Veronica was particularly trim in preparation for a call
she was to make with her aunt later in the afternoon. If they come here to walk around, they will hear us. Lord Charvill champed upon an invisible bit for a moment or two, closing the
gap between himself and the girl, and muttering the name to himself in an
overwrought sort of way. ”
He groaned. ”
Even in the glamour of Miss Brett’s assurance it seemed to Ann Veronica that
this was, after all, no more than the gospel of Miss Miniver with a new set of
resonances. “If only Sir John were not Sir John I would ask you
to come and have some supper. You must have repented a little, or you
would not have done that. You
may have something to conceal, you may not. Ennison, who had been standing with his back
to the window, came suddenly a little further into the room.
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