Teddy Widgett hovered on the fringe of all these gatherings, blinking at Ann Veronica and occasionally making a wildly friendly dash at her, and carrying her and Miss Miniver off to drink cocoa with a choice diversity of other youthful and congenial Fabians after the meetings. Manning central in her mind. She was sick of herself, of her life, of everything but him; and for him all her masked and hidden being was crying out. “I wish this hadn’t turned up to-day of all days. Honestly, I never did. I hope you will always love her, but I want you to remember she has offended your father and married without his consent. E. Pure luck! If the boy had grown a moustache or a beard, a needle in the haystack would have been soft work. ’ His head came thrusting out at Melusine like a belligerent tortoise from its shell. But his treasured dream lay shattered at his feet. To preach a fine sermon every Sunday so that he would lose neither the art nor the impulse; and this child, in secret rebellion, taking it down in long hand during odd hours in the week! Preaching grandiloquently before a few score natives who understood little beyond the gestures, for the single purpose of warding off disintegration! It reminded the doctor of a stubborn retreat; from barricade to barricade, grimly fighting to keep the enemy at bay, that insidious enemy of the white man in the South Seas—inertia. The visitor was the hotel manager, who respectfully announced that the doctor was ready for her. Then Ann Veronica passed on toward the tea in the garden, which was dotted with the elite of Morningside Park society, and there she was pounced upon by Lady Palsworthy and given tea and led about.
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