There, after protestations of friendliness and helpfulness that were almost ardent,
he mounted a little clumsily and rode off at an amiable pace, looking his best,
making a leg with his riding gaiters, smiling and saluting, while Ann Veronica
turned northward and so came to Micklechesil. . ‘Laisse-moi,’ she threw at him, her brief attack of sobs already ended,
although the trace of tears on her cheeks bore witness to its sincerity. "What! you still
hesitate! Will that rouse you, coward?" And she gave him a smart rap on the
head. He refused to
believe that Anna was not ‘Alcide. He had come to Anna’s
rooms from a dinner party, and he was in evening dress. ‘Housebreaking, Hilary? I take the matter of housebreaking
very seriously, I’ll have you know. But if not himself, there would be another
soon enough. “You are Mademoiselle Pellissier?” he asked, without rising to his feet. “You had only to
ask——”
“Do you think,” Anna interrupted, with a note of passion trembling also in her
tone, “that I would have taken alms from Sir John, the man to whom I had lied
for your sake. “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. “Something. The little girl uttered no remonstrance; but, replacing the flowers in the basket,
burst into tears, and withdrew. .
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