He was a
business man, pure and simple, his eyes were fastened always upon the practical
side of life. ’ He thought Roding gave him an odd look, but his next question
was already in his head. He came to her and stood before her, waiting,
the morning light dazzling his eyes. “Think of what Lady Palsworthy will say! Think of what”—So-and-so
—“will say! What are we to tell people?
“Besides, what am I to tell your father?”
At first it had not been at all clear to Ann Veronica that she would refuse to
return home; she had had some dream of a capitulation that should leave her an
enlarged and defined freedom, but as her aunt put this aspect and that of her
flight to her, as she wandered illogically and inconsistently from one urgent
consideration to another, as she mingled assurances and aspects and emotions, it
became clearer and clearer to the girl that there could be little or no change in the
position of things if she returned. She saw, twenty yards down the platform, the shiny hat and broad back and
inimitable swagger of Ramage. Melusine came back to the present to discover that tears were rolling down her
cheeks. He said simply that he wanted her to
live at home. The sun shined weakly through brief pinpricks
90
in the thick cloud cover, the weather was brewing a
storm.
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