A faint gleam of returning colour gave her at once a more natural appearance. She held it away from her with an instinctive repulsion, born of her unconquerable antipathy to the touch of strangers. She sought hastily in her mind for a plausible answer to an obvious question that didn’t come. I will tell you our plans on the way to the station. Her father was distinctly irascible, and disposed more than ever to hide away among the petrological things—the study was turned out. “I’ve broken off my engagement,” she said, in a matter-of-fact tone, and found her heart thumping in her neck. It is not well that a daughter should talk to her father as Ruth talked to hers that day. “You understand, then,” he was saying, “you understand?” “I understand,” said Ann Veronica, tear-wet and flushed with a reciprocal passion, but standing up to him with an equality that amazed even herself, “I understand. "You know my fixed determination," he added in a low tone, as he passed the carpenter. We shall both, I hope, live to enjoy our shares—long after Thames Darrell is forgotten—ha! ha! A third of your estate I accept. The performance over, he relaxed and closed his eyes. We all get deceived sometimes. He's a hundred miles sou'-east of me.
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