She asked no further questions for the moment. So presently they got into a hansom together, and Ann Veronica sat back
feeling very luxurious and pleasant, and looked at the light and stir and misty
glitter of the street traffic from under slightly drooping eyelids, while Ramage
sat closer to her than he need have done, and glanced ever and again at her face,
and made to speak and said nothing. Particles of bullet were embedded in Rhea’s large
arm as she swung across the stones in her donated legs. “Certainly. "
"All right; and thank you. It
reached her only slowly that Ann Veronica was standing to her resolution. “Perhaps,” he said, “I have been to blame. “I had a faint idea once that things were as you say they are, but the affair of
the ring—of the unexpected ring—puzzled me. ‘That will be a matter for her
future husband to decide. One of those hanging moments ensued—
hypnotic. That boy—blind as a bat! Why, he hadn't seen the
Woman until to-night!
From the first chord of the Grieg concerto to the finale of the Chopin ballade,
Ruth had sat tensely on the edge of her chair. ”
But the ring, and her aunt’s triumphant eye, and a note of approval in her
father’s manner, and a novel disposition in him to praise Manning in a just,
impartial voice had soon placed very definite qualifications upon that
covenanted secrecy. "That's it!"—eagerly. ’
‘Oh, that tragic pair,’ uttered her ladyship in saddened tones. Men and women
are not established things; they’re experiments, all of them.
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