He stood back and held her shoulders. Miss Stanley had determined from the outset to have the warmest affection for her youngest niece and to be a second mother in her life—a second and a better one; but she had found much to battle with, and there was much in herself that Ann Veronica failed to understand. What a girl of sixteen cares for is hair and a high color and moonlight and a tenor voice. He was a shy boy outwardly but she knew him better in his thoughts, in which perhaps she had already taken upon the role of lover. Spurling was in a state of distraction and began to abuse Jonathan so violently that her future husband was obliged to lay forcible hands upon her and drag her away. “She is an extremely attractive girl,” she said; and added, “to some people. Will you?” She thought, and it seemed to him she had never looked so self-disciplined and deliberate and beautiful. He had known she would be shocked, but he was equally certain Melusine would have refused to see her grandfather had she been forewarned. Her eyebrows were lifted in expostulation. “You are an impostor. She watched them sleep for what seemed hours from the high window until her body grew colder than the stone sill she perched upon. White’s boarding-house in Russell Square. She was quite oblivious to the sensation she had created. I would have liked to know.
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