CHAPTER XVII. Soon they came to treat Lucy almost as mother, pulling hard at her brown curls and laughing delightedly as they sprang back into their spiral shape. She took hand cannon and began to arm it. Operations then commenced. “I detest amateurs. It was easy enough to lie to anyone else. But she made a pretence of struggling a little, for it would be out of character for her not to do so and she did not want to arouse his suspicions. The fire—if there was any in him—never made headway against this insistant demand to know the significance of these manifold inward agitations. She had seen for herself right up in the bedroom window with her binoculars when Joanie was gone shopping one night, right with her own eyes. We’re different. She had the same sharp nose—which, indeed, only Ann Veronica, of all the family, had escaped. Where her husband saw only two youngsters in the mating mood, she felt that tragedy in some phase lurked in this room—if only in the loneliness of these two, without kith or kin apparently, thousands of miles from home. She rose at once with a little exclamation, half of surprise, half of pleasure.
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