CHAPTER XIV. All her tender lures, inherent and acquired, had shattered themselves futilely against the reserve he had set between them. ’ ‘There is no need for this,’ he ventured mildly, and lifted his finger to show his own pistol was not cocked. There’s always friction, conflict, unwilling concessions. "Yes, my angel, to her—rest her soul! She extorted it from me, and bound me by a solemn oath to fulfil it. When she entered the office a strange scene was presented to her startled gaze. “How have you been, my dear? Up to no good, I see. ‘Never. In that case I'll help you. And neither had any of that theatricality which demands gestures and facial expression. They used the rope—not that a rope was at all necessary, but because Ann Veronica’s exalted state of mind made the fact of the rope agreeably symbolical; and, anyhow, it did insure a joint death in the event of some remotely possibly mischance. ” She chilled Ann Veronica a little by that last phrase, and yet the magnetism of her fellowship and enthusiasm was very strong; and it was pleasant to be made out a heroine after so much expostulation and so many secret doubts. You are a detective?" "Yes. “I knew you would feel it,” said Miss Miniver, as they came away flushed and heated.
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