He stood with his hands in his pockets looking at Miss Klegg’s back. Ann Veronica’s universe, which had never been altogether so respectful to her as she could have wished, gave a shout and whirled head over heels. The mere fact that he was there in the train alongside her, helping her, sitting opposite to her in the dining-car, presently sleeping on a seat within a yard of her, made her heart sing until she was afraid their fellow passengers would hear it. What a treat to see all the old tabbies taken at fault for once!’ ‘You are a dreadful child,’ scolded Mrs Sindlesham, with which Melusine could not but agree, despite the dimple rioting in her great-aunt’s cheek. ’ ‘I don’t want to think it,’ he said, and she thrilled to the savagery in his tone. ‘Is there a resemblance?’ ‘This is Mary Remenham?’ ‘That is my late niece, yes. Particularly when it was obvious the fellow was one of these pitiful wretches weak enough to allow themselves to be ousted from their inheritances and thus obliged to come seeking succour of their neighbours. Yet here you are, and at precisely the right moment, too. They entered a hansom and turned on to the Embankment. ‘You are too shrewd for me, ma’am. Alcohol— would you believe it?—steadies his nerves and keens his brain: which is against the laws of gravitation, you might say. He's as nice and civil-spoken a gentleman as need be; by the same token," she added, in an under tone, "that he gave me a span new crown piece. The hotel on the Peak had the aspect of a fairy castle. When I learned you were married, I changed my plans. She looked at him mournfully.
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