That had taken her by surprise, and her tired wits had failed her. Part 7 The steps by which Ann Veronica determined to engage herself to marry Manning were never very clear to her. She went from period to period exactly as she would have read prose; so that sense and music were equally balanced. ’ ‘Did I so?’ Gerald said, amused. . Full as she was of him, it felt good to shower her kill out of her hair. He was also, had she known it, more than a little insincere. He had had five children at irregular intervals, of whom Ann Veronica was the youngest, so that as a parent he came to her perhaps a little practised and jaded and inattentive; and he called her his “little Vee,” and patted her unexpectedly and disconcertingly, and treated her promiscuously as of any age between eleven and eight-and-twenty. The man pulled up his horse grumbling, and turned round. They were loath to admit to the public that the case would be closed in a few years for sheer lack of forensic evidence. Towards this box Sharples directed his steps, and, unlocking a hatch in the door, disclosed a recess scarcely as large, and certainly not as clean, as a dog-kennel. He beamed a little as she disappeared into the orchestra room, a cacophony of tuning instruments. When she awoke from a pleasant dream an hour later, she was shocked to find herself restrained in a bed that was not hers and not the inn’s. For if the likeness between the sisters was remarkable, the likeness between this girl and the poster which he had come from studying was more remarkable still. She had been in the drawing-room for a few minutes before the gong had sounded, and had chattered gaily to every one.
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