’ She sipped at the liquid in her glass, but her eyes remained fixed, rather unnervingly, on Gerald. If she returns to the house from which we took her, her companions will laugh at her and smother her with ridicule. ’ ‘But if you have not seen him, then he has certainly escaped. ToC In an incredibly short space of time,—for her anxiety lent wings to her feet,— Mrs. ‘Can’t have been a common housebreaker, you see,’ Hilary explained to Lucilla, quite unnecessarily. ’ ‘Yes,’ she agreed, but her manner was a degree less warm. ” “But it is too late,” she declared. ’ Lady Bicknacre, resplendent in purple satin, and basking in her triumphantly full rooms—for it was obvious that her patronage of the refugees had set a quickly to be followed fashion—was all sorrow and sympathy when Gerald spoke of them. Then as she drew nearer paint showed upon her face, and a harsh purpose behind the quiet expression of her open countenance, and a sort of unreality in her splendor betrayed itself for which Ann Veronica could not recall the right word—a word, half understood, that lurked and hid in her mind, the word “meretricious. She infused menace into her voice.
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