"And you would surrender yourself
—eh?"
"I'll surrender myself at once, if you'll engage to bring him off; and you'll get the
reward from old Wood. After all, his was a pleasant face, and a pleasant voice, and very
likely Annabel had behaved badly. ‘You’re as mad as she is, Gerald. Her lover surely did not
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understand the implications of what he had asked for and
his lust blinded him to the realities of existence even now. What can a girl do?
Somewhere at this point Ann Veronica’s speculations were interrupted and
turned aside by the approach of a horse and rider. ”
“Yes,” said Ann Veronica, “I agree to that. No more. I MUST. Father-worshipping sons are abnormal—
and they’re no good. It’s the poor dears who do, who
know they will, know they can’t keep it up, who need to clutch at way-side
flowers. Yet either the rest or the wine
seemed already to have done him good. It seems that he was a sort of
family friend of the Pellissiers, and it was the artist sister whom he was with. He’s a footman who works for
the nuns and has taken up the cudgels on her behalf.
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