’ ‘You’re going?’ asked his friend, and the note of relief was marked. A bowl of roses, just brought by Ann Veronica, adorned the communal dressing-table, and Ann Veronica was particularly trim in preparation for a call she was to make with her aunt later in the afternoon. She turned to face him and he kissed her. She was not a reversion to type, which intimates the primordial; she suggested rather the incarnation of some goddess of the South Seas. ‘It is necessary that one is at all times ready to protect oneself,’ explained the young lady flatly. 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. His attraction for her was now written plainly on his freckled face, revealed by the many drinks he had imbibed. All his dreams shattered in an instant.
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