" CHAPTER XX To Spurlock it seemed as if a great iron door had swung in behind him, shutting out the old world. “Oh. The vestry was perhaps the only room in the place, except her allotted curtained off portion of the dormitory chamber that served for her cell—and she could not scandalise the nuns by having a man in there, be he never so much a servant—where Melusine could be sure of privacy. Even now I do not understand. “Very sincerely yours, “ANN VERONICA STANLEY. ’ They moved to the door, while the lady shrugged, and then seated herself, glancing from the window into the street below, and then turning again to watch them in their huddle at the other side of the library. “And what on earth,” he said, “do you think the world is made of? Why do you think I have been doing things for you? The abstract pleasure of goodness? Are you one of the members of that great white sisterhood that takes and does not give? The good accepting woman! Do you really suppose a girl is entitled to live at free quarters on any man she meets without giving any return?” “I thought,” said Ann Veronica, “you were my friend. Anna looked at her, startled. They talked across their meal in an easy and friendly manner about Ann Veronica’s affairs. ‘You see now how dangerous it is to play this lone hand. About them quickly. If that is my sister’s message, pray return to her and say that the doings and sayings of Mr. Everything. Why was he there? why did the tempter dare to invade that sacred spot! She could not answer her own questions, but vague fearful suspicions passed through her mind. I do not want to get only a second-hand flavour of life.
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