‘I find this was excessively clever of Gérard. “I thought I saw her in town to-day,” he said. ’ The lodgekeeper had been in fine fettle by the time Major Alderley had produced his investigatory force at the gates. ‘Don’t tell me you’ve found her!’ ‘Ah, Gérard,’ uttered the girl in a gratified tone as Major Alderley walked through into the light. She did not question or analyze the craving; she took the plunge joyously. It’s the feinting tricks you have to watch for. . . “Think of what Lady Palsworthy will say! Think of what”—So-and-so —“will say! What are we to tell people? “Besides, what am I to tell your father?” At first it had not been at all clear to Ann Veronica that she would refuse to return home; she had had some dream of a capitulation that should leave her an enlarged and defined freedom, but as her aunt put this aspect and that of her flight to her, as she wandered illogically and inconsistently from one urgent consideration to another, as she mingled assurances and aspects and emotions, it became clearer and clearer to the girl that there could be little or no change in the position of things if she returned. “See you to-night, I suppose?” He sauntered off. It had been brighter than the rest, for dawn light had come in through high unshuttered casements above the bookshelves. Why don’t you go in? Charvill is there.
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