And as he walked by her side they began a wrangle that was none the less pleasant to Ann Veronica because it served to banish a disagreeable preoccupation. ” For the moment her aunt could not think of any reply to this counterstroke, and Ann Veronica followed up her advantage by a sudden inquiry about her abandoned boots. Her aunt was blandly amiable above a certain tremulous undertow, and talked as if to a caller about the alarming spread of marigolds that summer at the end of the garden, a sort of Yellow Peril to all the smaller hardy annuals, while her father brought some papers to table and presented himself as preoccupied with them. “No,” she answered. It wailed at Lucy, chubby arms reaching towards her, pleading. He is the kind of man who would much prefer a little dust in his eyes. And yet she knew it was not fair to call her a foolish girl. No wonder we are anxious that nothing should happen to make him change his mind. But the restraint exercised by her instinctive delicacy was very great; over and above coarse or sexual matters it covered religion and politics and any mention of money matters or crime, and Ann Veronica found herself wondering whether these exclusions represented, after all, anything more than suppressions. He had always warned her explicitly about turning others into vampires. Rain started to pummel the roof of the pavilion, which coalesced into sheets and rumbled to the cement below. So he made his dispositions and went off on some other fool’s errand.
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