Whatever anticipation Ann Veronica had formed of this vanished in the reality. A chain, riveted to an iron belt encircling her waist, bound her to the wall. ” The three men, who had arrived within a minute or two of one another, received her little speech in dead silence. The recollection of all her unhappiness, the loveless years, the unending loneliness, the injustice of it, rolled up to her lips in verbal lava. I could not have committed this robbery. ” Chapter XIX “THIS IS NOT THE END” “I said some afternoon,” she remarked, throwing open her warm coat, and taking off her gloves, “but I certainly did not mean to-day. “Dear friend,” she said, “do not magnify me into a physiological problem. “Do you mean, aunt,” she asked, “that my father thought I had gone off—with some man?” “What else COULD he think? Would any one DREAM you would be so mad as to go off alone?” “After—after what had happened the night before?” “Oh, why raise up old scores? If you could see him this morning, his poor face as white as a sheet and all cut about with shaving! He was for coming up by the very first train and looking for you, but I said to him, ‘Wait for the letters,’ and there, sure enough, was yours. ’ Obediently, Gerald rose and walked to the other end of the parlour. At this point Lucy, in an effort perhaps—foolhardy, in Gerald’s opinion—to pour oil on troubled waters, rose swiftly to her feet and came towards the old man, her hand held out. Lucy kissed him on the cheek. ” “Never better in my life,” Anna declared briskly.
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