It was not quite the search I intended,’ he said with a touch of selfmockery as he released her, ‘but success comes in all sorts of unexpected ways. 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. She was never able to trace the changes her attitude had undergone, from the time when she believed herself to be the pampered Queen of Fortune, the crown of a good man’s love (and secretly, but nobly, worshipping some one else), to the time when she realized she was in fact just a mannequin for her lover’s imagination, and that he cared no more for the realities of her being, for the things she felt and desired, for the passions and dreams that might move her, than a child cares for the sawdust in its doll. Under her feet lay intricate mosaics, and each warm hall was festooned in tapestries. So the young fool had not told her! McClintock had suspected as much. The slim knife was wrested from her grasp, and she was flung backwards, towards the bookcases. . "Do you think I'd take the trouble to announce him? These are persons of consequence, I tell you. Yes, yes; that was all very well in ordinary cases; but yonder was a soul in travail, if ever she had seen one. They can’t help seeing things in the way they do. I heard everywhere of his enormous riches and his generosity. Will you venture?" "It is a hazardous experiment," said Thames, after a moment's reflection; "but I will make it. ‘I can’t think how I’ve tolerated myself all these years. She had been warned time and time again by Sebastian that fame would mean the end of her freedom, being hounded in to the next lifetime by vampire and power seekers.
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