He could not kiss Ruth. “She has nothing to be afraid of,” he continued. Automatically, she glanced at the slight red graze left on her neck that marked the point where Gerald’s sword had nicked her. But at the beginning of the affray, when he thought every one was too much occupied with his own concerns to remark his absence, he slipped out of the room, not for the purpose of avoiding the engagement (for cowardice was not one of his failings), but because he had another object in view. In between naps she increasingly found herself gazing at him, his large nose, his eyes circled in silvery plum shadows, his thin lips parted as he slept baring a rim of perfect teeth. Jiggle-joggle, jiggle-joggle…! For each pause she was grateful. It occurred to Ann Veronica once that she had known him when he was younger, but day had followed day, and each had largely obliterated the impression of its predecessor. ’ Mrs Sindlesham’s lips twitched. A little love from him would be enough. ” She assented, smiling. A pane of glass was shivered by each stone. CHAPTER XXVII His idea, cleverly planned, was to shatter her resistance, to confound her suddenly by striking her mind with words which would rob her coherent thought. She must kill this man, or kill herself. ” Part 3 When Ann Veronica found herself in her father’s study that evening it seemed to her for a moment as though all the events of the past six months had been a dream.
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