She tried to imagine the collective effect of the Fadden Ball; she had never seen a fancy-dress gathering in her life. Ten years of military life had taught him caution, but only strengthened a fearless zest for diving into any promising adventure with unalloyed enjoyment. “You must answer me, Annabel,” she continued. Still unconscious of anything he did physically. ‘Where is Gérard?’ ‘Out of town,’ Hilary said briefly. This is altogether insupportable. "Leave me to my fate," rejoined Jack. She did not so much deal with Ann Veronica’s interpolations as dispose of them with quick and use-hardened repartee, and then she went on with a fine directness to sketch the case for her agitation, for that remarkable rebellion of the women that was then agitating the whole world of politics and discussion. “But that’s not all. He had spoken impressively, and most likely Anna, had she reappeared, would have met with a fair reception. Warm life was behind that always, even if it slept. Ann Veronica had had some training at the Tredgold College in disentangling threads from confused statements, and she had a curious persuasion that in all this fluent muddle there was something—something real, something that signified. Evidently he was gazing at the dull red roofs of the city: but was he registering what he saw? Never glance sideways at man, the old Kanaka woman had said. The spirit I drink may be poison,—it may kill me,—perhaps it is killing me:—but so would hunger, cold, misery,—so would my own thoughts. “I’m d——d if I understand this,” he said thoughtfully.
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