” “What case?” “A divorce—or something—I don’t know. We are alone, Sir Rowland," he added, snuffing the candles, glancing cautiously around, and lowering his tone, "and what you confide to me shall never transpire,—at least to your disadvantage. CHAPTER THE FOURTH THE CRISIS Part 1 We left Miss Stanley with Ann Veronica’s fancy dress in her hands and her eyes directed to Ann Veronica’s pseudo-Turkish slippers. ” For the moment her aunt could not think of any reply to this counterstroke, and Ann Veronica followed up her advantage by a sudden inquiry about her abandoned boots. But this was a vicomte’s sister. As Leonardo had himself pronounced, who better than a mountebank to teach of the perils awaiting the unwary? Who better than a wastrel to demonstrate the worth of thrift? And who could instruct better in the matter of affections than one who had thrown them away? ‘If he had loved me,’ she said, in the flat tone she had learned to use to conceal her vulnerable heart, ‘he would have left me at Remenham House to live a life of an English lady. There was nothing of the phenomenon in this. Now we meet again, and you will scarcely look at me. It has been a real honeymoon trip, Annabel, for I feel that it has given me a wife. The question ceased to be a tea-table talk, and became suddenly tragically real for Ann Veronica. She wanted his attention, but so did everyone else. “Then we must try and make London endurable for you,” he remarked cheerfully.
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