“Who will you stop with?”
“I shall go on my own. . It became a sort of duel at last between them, and all the
others sat and listened—every one, that is, except the Alderman, who had got the
blond young man into a corner by the green-stained dresser with the aluminum
things, and was sitting with his back to every one else, holding one hand over his
mouth for greater privacy, and telling him, with an accent of confidential
admission, in whispers of the chronic struggle between the natural modesty and
general inoffensiveness of the Borough Council and the social evil in
Marylebone. ”
“I suppose all men,” said Ann Veronica, in a tone of detached criticism, “get
some such entanglement. One thing—he could be thankful for
that—the peak of his misfortunes had been reached; the world might come to an
end now and not matter in the least. It is better that you go away now, I think. ”
“You alarm me,” she murmured, smiling. ”
“Suppose he comes and talks to me?”
“A girl can always keep a man at a distance if she cares to do it. 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. ”
“Just so,” the doctor remarked drily.
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