’ He clenched his fists and grew red in the face. “But I don’t see,” said Ann Veronica, “just how it fits the present situation. Wood; "he has gone out without leave, and has taken Thames Darrell with him. Taking the opposite course from that which he had hitherto pursued when it has been necessary to attend him in his visits to the lower part of his premises, he struck into a narrow passage on the right, which he tracked till he came to a small door, like the approach to a vault. That is why I called myself Anna. "Dying, Sir Rowland. And, as he quitted the room, the poor widow fell with her face upon the floor. Sydney and Brendon vied with one another in their efforts to engage Anna in conversation, and Miss Ellicot, during the momentary lull, deemed it a favourable opportunity to recommence siege operations. “No,” she said at last; “I’m a human being—not a timid female. Come now, I am very glad to see you again so soon, mademoiselle whatever-your-name-is. Ann Veronica was excited and puzzled, with a sense of a strange and disconcerting new light breaking over her relations with Ramage. Somehow or other his reputation as a hardened and unassailable bachelor had won for him during the last few years a comparative immunity from attentions on the part of those women with whom he had been brought into contact. He himself, middle-aged, steeped in traditions of the City and moneymaking, very ill-skilled in all the lighter graces of life, as he himself well knew, could yet come to her invested with something of the halo of romance by the almost magical powers of an unlimited banking account.
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