The few pence
left in her purse would only provide a very scanty lunch. As she crossed the square, almost within a stone’s throw of her lodgings, she
came face to face with Courtlaw. Martha had been careful to make no mention of Melusine, and did not reply to
Mrs Ibstock’s enquiry about the fate of the little babe. ”
It was significant of her influence over him that he answered her calmly,
although a storm of angry thoughts were struggling for expression within him. We can see round them and behind
them and through them, and most of us use that knowledge, in the silent way we
have, for our great ends. The doctor said you wrote. "
"Never fear—never fear," rejoined Abraham, as he took up the link, and left the
room. Tomorrow you will feel like a freed woman. It was, Ann Veronica felt, as a sip or so of that remarkable
blend warmed her blood, just the sort of thing that her aunt would not approve,
to be lunching thus, tete-a-tete with a man; and yet at the same time it was a
perfectly innocent as well as agreeable proceeding. ”
That simple statement of the case was by no means all that went on in Ann
Veronica’s mind. Evidently he was gazing at the dull red roofs of the city: but was he registering
what he saw? Never glance sideways at man, the old Kanaka woman had said. His expression altered. Unwillingly he drew a little nearer, and became one of the group of
loiterers about the entrance.
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