The quiet encounter and home-coming Ann Veronica and she had contemplated was entirely disorganized by this misadventure; there were no adequate explanations, and after they had settled things at Ann Veronica’s lodgings, they reached home in the early afternoon estranged and depressed, with headaches and the trumpet voice of the indomitable Kitty Brett still ringing in their ears. She watched, puzzled, as her cavalier frowned at the newcomer, glancing from him to Melusine and back again. ” “Will you tell me,” Sir John said ponderously, “by what right you call that young lady—la petite Pellissier? I should be glad to know how you dare to allude to her in a public place in such a disrespectful manner!” Drummond looked at him and smiled. The lady grasped it more firmly and turned it upon Hilary. “John, that is what you say now. “Do you think that it is kind of you, Miss Pellissier,” he said, almost roughly, “to ignore your friends so? In your heart you know quite well that you could pay Sydney or me no greater compliment than to give us just a little of your confidence. “Then we must try and make London endurable for you,” he remarked cheerfully. The oblique ruddy lighting distorted them oddly, made queer bars and patches of shadow upon their clothes. If our young person hadn’t had the nurse part cut out, eh? She might have known more and done less. Let’s go. They went to the Zoological Gardens together one Saturday to see for themselves a point of morphological interest about the toucan’s bill—that friendly and entertaining bird—and they spent the rest of the afternoon walking about and elaborating in general terms this theme and the superiority of intellectual fellowship to all merely passionate relationships. Hist!" cried he, as a scream was heard from without. "Gad! it's a devilish fine face when lit up. All that I regret are the wasted years, and I am not sure that I regret them.
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