” Ann Veronica read this letter through with grave, attentive eyes. To hand the key back in silence was like offering a lie. She shuddered. The worthy carpenter was restored to instant good humour by a glance from his helpmate; and, notwithstanding the infliction he had just endured, he would have quarrelled with any one who had endeavoured to persuade him that he was not the happiest of men, and Mrs. “A new admirer, Annabel? But what has that to do with your going to England?” “Everything! He is Sir John Ferringhall—very stupid, very respectable, very egotistical. He will have it that I’ve taken leave of my senses. That delightful sense of free, unembarrassed movement was gone. “My God! Ann Veronica,” he said, struggling to keep his hold upon her; “my God! Tell me—tell me now—tell me you love me!” His expression was as it were rapaciously furtive. For a nun at night it is less dangerous than for the jeune demoiselle. . But the offences I have committed are venial in comparison with what I should commit were I to wed your father. It now came to him with an added thrill how well she had told her story; simply and directly, no skipping, no wandering hither and yon: from the first hour she could remember, to the night she had fled in the proa, a clear sustained narrative. And mind you don't arouse his suspicions. ” “And you?” asked David Courtlaw.
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