But for Ruth, he, Howard Spurlock, might have ended upon the beach, inescapably damned. One point was that she was to wear fancy dress in the likeness of a Corsair’s bride, and the other was that she was to spend whatever vestiges of the night remained after the dance was over in London with the Widgett girls and a select party in “quite a decent little hotel” near Fitzroy Square. She tried surreptitiously to reach her own dagger, in its cunning hiding place in her petticoat. Happily they had no one else to wait for, and it heartened her mightily to think that she had ordered the promptest possible service of the dinner. When they reached her rooms she stepped lightly out upon the pavement. Perhaps that was the reason why she enjoyed preparing suppers at the Becks. ” “Well—” “That’s all. Ann Veronica’s universe, which had never been altogether so respectful to her as she could have wished, gave a shout and whirled head over heels. " "That I'll engage not to do. ’ ‘I think you—’ He broke off abruptly, astonished at what he had been about to say.
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