Feigning an air of casualness, Lucy asked the obvious. "Very well," said Rachel, with a toss of her pretty head, "very well. Then light footsteps became audible, descending the staircase with a certain deliberation and a faint rustle of skirts. ’ ‘Alone, miss?’ ‘Certainly alone. She told the porter to take it to the booking-office, and it was only after a disconcerting moment or so that she found she ought to have directed him to go to the cloak-room. Do you think that it makes for happiness to force oneself into the extravagant belief that love is the only thing in the world worth having, and to sacrifice for it independence, self-respect, one’s whole scheme of life. “I don’t see there’s any getting away from the fact that you and I love each other,” he said, slowly. My very sentences stumble and give way. “You must arrest me!” she gasped, breathlessly, insisting insanely on a point already carried; “you shall!” The police-station at the end seemed to Ann Veronica like a refuge from unnamable disgraces. " Sir Rowland, meantime, throw himself on his knees beside his sister, and, clasping her chilly fingers within his own, besought her forgiveness in the most passionate terms. He waited the pleasure of Monsieur. They were talking of “Alcide,” as they often did in those days.
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