But once he had steered the lady down the hall and along a passage to a window seat at the end, he abandoned the subject of society. “By Jove!” she said, standing up at last, “that about finishes it, Ann Veronica!” CHAPTER THE TENTH THE SUFFRAGETTES Part 1 “There is only one way out of all this,” said Ann Veronica, sitting up in her little bed in the darkness and biting at her nails. “After all, how easy the descent is, even for the greatest of us. “I wanted to go to an art-student ball of which he disapproved. After the twins were past the toddling age, Clotilde finally caught on when the children cleaved to Lucia’s breast when it was time to leave for a fortnight abroad. She could not be more than twenty; and though want and other suffering had done the work of time, had wasted her frame, and robbed her cheek of its bloom and roundness, they had not extinguished the lustre of her eyes, nor thinned her raven hair. Warm life was behind that always, even if it slept. “This girl—she’s really a very charming, frank person—had had her imagination fired, so she told me, by a school performance of Romeo and Juliet. Like a nightmare memory that returned again and again to haunt her. Jerking forward, she jabbed backwards. He only laughed his defiance. ’ She halted, her pistol still held firm and straight, both hands gripping it, her expressive features at once determined and uncertain. ‘Don’t want it to break out bleeding again. Ann Veronica decided to be more explicit. “I may be leaving where I am in a few days, so very likely you will be no better off.
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