So presently they got into a hansom together, and Ann Veronica sat back feeling very luxurious and pleasant, and looked at the light and stir and misty glitter of the street traffic from under slightly drooping eyelids, while Ramage sat closer to her than he need have done, and glanced ever and again at her face, and made to speak and said nothing. He wanted to talk with the patient, test him variously; and he wanted to be alone with him while he put these tests. A shiver slid down inside her. “Do you mean, aunt,” she asked, “that my father thought I had gone off—with some man?” “What else COULD he think? Would any one DREAM you would be so mad as to go off alone?” “After—after what had happened the night before?” “Oh, why raise up old scores? If you could see him this morning, his poor face as white as a sheet and all cut about with shaving! He was for coming up by the very first train and looking for you, but I said to him, ‘Wait for the letters,’ and there, sure enough, was yours. Now, Sir. "I had no thought of injuring your wife, and would have died rather than commit so foul a crime. On the other a wretched engraving of the Chevalier de Saint George, or, as he was styled in the label attached to the portrait, James the Third, raised a suspicion that the inmate of the house was not altogether free from some tincture of Jacobitism. If there’s any one here whom you have not met I will make you acquainted with them after dinner. " "Then, bring them into this room, the first thing—quick! They must not meet, Sir Rowland," he added, as Charcam hastened to obey his instructions. “What do you think of them?” Anna extended her critical survey and shrugged her shoulders. " The words were scarcely pronounced, when Rowland disappeared. She had never been so happy to vomit. I should have thought my note cleared up everything. However, I'd rather have a blow from the daughter than the mother. “You cowards!” said Ann Veronica, “put her down!” and tore herself from a detaining hand and battered with her fists upon the big red ear and blue shoulder of the policeman who held the little old lady.
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