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Chapter XXIV
A CASE FOR THE POLICE
After that first horrible moment it was perhaps Anna who was the more selfpossessed. Heaven knows what dim and tawdry conceptions of passion and desire were
in that blond cranium, what romance-begotten dreams of intrigue and adventure!
but they sufficed, when presently Ann Veronica went out into the darkling street
again, to inspire a flitting, dogged pursuit, idiotic, exasperating, indecent. Opposite the
gallows was an open gallery, or scaffolding, like the stand at a racecourse,
which, on state occasions, was crowded with spectators. “You do not know
what such a relation means. Gerald crossed back
to the window. She had been quite convinced that an
engagement with him and at last a marriage had exactly that quality of
compromise which distinguishes the ways of the wise. I have since received a
most extraordinary letter from her. Eric
Vorsack still toiled at work. It still failed in something. This is my first venture over
here. Father-worshipping sons are abnormal—
and they’re no good. I thought—the papers said——”
“You thought that I was dead,” he interrupted. Lucy’s solos were
exquisite in their precision and expression. “I think, aunt,” she said, “you might trust to my self-respect to keep me
out of that.
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