” There followed an instant’s pause, and then Ann Veronica had decided to misunderstand. Sheppard repressed the scream that rose to her lips, and both mother and son gazed with apprehension at the heavy figure of the thief-taker, which, viewed in the twilight, seemed dilated to twice its natural size, and appeared almost to block up the window. “But your sister?” he asked. And now she insisted that she MUST leave the chastened security of the Tredgold Women’s College for Russell’s unbridled classes, and wanted to go to fancy dress dances in pirate costume and spend the residue of the night with Widgett’s ramshackle girls in some indescribable hotel in Soho! He had done his best not to think about her at all, but the situation and his sister had become altogether too urgent. “Perhaps I should better be able to understand its significance if you would explain to me who Mr. Still—” Then, with incredible and obviously deliberate stupidity, and a voice as flat as her own, he asked, “Who is the man?” Her spirit raged within her at the dumbness, the paralysis that had fallen upon her. "In case he should consent—" "He never will," interrupted Winifred. Could she understand what she was talking about? Luckily it was a second-class carriage and the ordinary fellowtravellers were not there. ” “I suppose all IS well that ends well. After that night she made it a habit. She lunged without warning again, and Gosse, just catching her blade on his own, was obliged to retreat backwards up the little stair.
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