I will marry you when Sir John gets his divorce, and I will do all I can to keep you out of harm. “And what on earth,” he said, “do you think the world is made of? Why do you think I have been doing things for you? The abstract pleasure of goodness? Are you one of the members of that great white sisterhood that takes and does not give? The good accepting woman! Do you really suppose a girl is entitled to live at free quarters on any man she meets without giving any return?” “I thought,” said Ann Veronica, “you were my friend. Straitened circumstances would not have mattered; a mother would have managed somehow. The Master listened, with becoming attention, to the narrative, and, at its conclusion, shook his head gravely, applied his thumb to the side of his nose, and, twirling his fingers significantly, winked at his phlegmatic companion. The only persons in the Lodge were Mrs. Kneebone, who began to feel sleepy, wound it up, and snuffed the candles. I was engaged to dine with your sister and her husband, and I sent a wire. " "Perhaps that was it. Sometimes she missed her cue and nodded affirmatively when the gesture should have been the reverse; and Prudence would send her a sharp glance of disapproval. He had just passed through a terrific physical test. And, when I have seen him pining away before my eyes, getting thinner and thinner every day, I have sometimes thought my prayers were heard. I am aware that you ran away from there, but—’ ‘Certainly I ran away,’ she said, meeting his gaze with defiance in her own. By and by—as the paroxysm subsided and he became motionless—she stole back to the bungalow to wait. “Can you give me any information as to this affair?” he asked. .
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