I hope you have learned your lesson now and come to see—come to realize—how things are. McClintock watched her interestedly until her golden head vanished below; then, with tolerant pity, he looked down at Spurlock, who had closed his eyes. While he thus vented his rage, the door again opened, and Quilt Arnold rushed into the room, bleeding, and half-dressed. On the next morning—Sunday—the day on which he expected his mother's funeral to take place, he set out along the Harrow Road. She answered in whispers, for there was the white arm of a woman in the next box peeping beyond the partition within a yard of him. “I wonder,” he said, “how you would like to be made love to—boldly or timorously or sentimentally. ‘Eh bien?’ ‘You are perfectly right, Melusine. I’m in a mess—a nasty mess! a filthy mess! Oh, no end of a mess! “Do you hear, Ann Veronica?—you’re in a nasty, filthy, unforgivable mess! “Haven’t I just made a silly mess of things? “Forty pounds! I haven’t got twenty!” She got up, stamped with her foot, and then, suddenly remembering the lodger below, sat down and wrenched off her boots. What had urged her to wrench loose and fly was the guarding instinct of the good woman. You want to think for a time, to be free for a time. ’ Melusine fought down the raw emotion that threatened to overwhelm her and drew a steadying breath. Part 9 The realization that she was in love flooded Ann Veronica’s mind, and altered the quality of all its topics.
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