"Affairs are not normal in Canton at present. Rather a magniloquent term, perhaps, but what else am I to say? One of these is that the most absolutely selfish thing in the world is to give way to depression, to think of one’s troubles at all except of how to overcome them. Did you see Lord Delafield and Miss Anderson? They packed me in with Colonel Anson and Mrs. All the turnkeys were assembled. The calvacade was now put slowly in motion. Ann Veronica’s tense nerves started, and she stood still with her eyes upon him, wondering what it might be that impended. “I think she would,” she decided. “Think of what Lady Palsworthy will say! Think of what”—So-and-so —“will say! What are we to tell people? “Besides, what am I to tell your father?” At first it had not been at all clear to Ann Veronica that she would refuse to return home; she had had some dream of a capitulation that should leave her an enlarged and defined freedom, but as her aunt put this aspect and that of her flight to her, as she wandered illogically and inconsistently from one urgent consideration to another, as she mingled assurances and aspects and emotions, it became clearer and clearer to the girl that there could be little or no change in the position of things if she returned. Then he slapped his hand on his desk and looked up with the air of a man struck by a brilliant idea. " This readiness to surrender the coat to her surprised Ruth. “But what can one do?” asked Ann Veronica.
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