His glance swept up again and found her staring at him with much of her usual defiance, if a touch less of her customary assurance. Ann Veronica liked their relationship all the more because it was an unusual one. She saw his purpose and his doubt hesitated also, and then went to him, took his coat lapels, and kissed him on the cheek. ‘Keep watch, Jack! If Captain Roding fails to keep the man out of the house, run upstairs and warn me quickly. Why? While the front of his mind was busy warning her not to fall into the hopeless miseries of underpaid teaching, and explaining his idea that for women of initiative, quite as much as for men, the world of business had by far the best chances, the back chambers of his brain were busy with the problem of that “Why?” His first idea as a man of the world was to explain her unrest by a lover, some secret or forbidden or impossible lover. “Now, Veronica,” he pleaded, “Veronica, this is most unreasonable. But let the horses be in readiness. “I’ve got nothing in the world to pack with except a toy size portmanteau. “Am I hurting you?” She asked. He saw rifts in clouds—sunshine. Do you remember what I said when you took me at the Mint four days ago? I told you my turn would come. “I wish you didn’t. We aren’t worth it. Annabel had spoken calmly enough and steadily, but his brain refused at first to accept the full meaning of her words. Jerking forward, she jabbed backwards.
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