A neat tale, giving little away. Wasn’t it—a little bit of a scene?” “Oh! let me see. Here was one that subtly mocked her. Miss Miniver looked over her glasses at her friend almost balefully. You never can go back. Be honest, and you will be happy. After all, she found herself reflecting, behind her aunt’s complacent visage there was a past as lurid as any one’s—not, of course, her aunt’s own personal past, which was apparently just that curate and almost incredibly jejune, but an ancestral past with all sorts of scandalous things in it: fire and slaughterings, exogamy, marriage by capture, corroborees, cannibalism! Ancestresses with perhaps dim anticipatory likenesses to her aunt, their hair less neatly done, no doubt, their manners and gestures as yet undisciplined, but still ancestresses in the direct line, must have danced through a brief and stirring life in the woady buff. Grandmothers and grandfathers and uncles and aunts … to love and to coddle lonely little girls. “Look here,” he cried out of a silence, with a sudden flash of understanding, “did you mean to throw me over when you came out with me this afternoon?” Ann Veronica hesitated, and with a startled mind realized the truth. She touched bow to strings, playing a fifth. A radiant smile astonished him. Then suddenly her spirit rose in revolt.
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