“Something. He continued thoughtfully. ” She looked at him quizzically. ’ ‘Of course I am, imbecile,’ she snapped, unconsciously echoing her greatniece. Everyone will grumble to you confidentially—Miss Ellicot, she’s our swagger young lady, you know—up there, next to Miss White, she will tell you that it is so out of the world here, so far away from everyone one knows. There is the key. How little he knew about Ruth—the background from which she had sprung! He knew that her father was a missioner, that her mother was dead, that she had been born on this island, and that, at the time of his collapse, she had been on the way to an aunt in the States. She owed the nun a great deal, including her command of English, for no one else thought to ensure she could speak her mother tongue. ‘Now then, Gerald, out with it. He had had five children at irregular intervals, of whom Ann Veronica was the youngest, so that as a parent he came to her perhaps a little practised and jaded and inattentive; and he called her his “little Vee,” and patted her unexpectedly and disconcertingly, and treated her promiscuously as of any age between eleven and eight-and-twenty. Twelve years, then, have elapsed since the date of the occurrences detailed in the preceding division of this history. Two persons possessing a more comfortable stock of assurance could not be readily found. And besides—We’re going to live, Ann Veronica! Oh, the things we’ll do, the life we’ll lead! There’ll be trouble in it at times—you and I aren’t going to run without friction. Cheveney was another Paris friend, was he?” she asked. ’ Melusine’s arm crept up around his neck.
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