CHAPTER IV
The tourists returned to the Sha-mien at four o'clock. For his own part he could not sufficiently admire the pluck of this
lady, who, notwithstanding all that she had been through, had chosen to appear
this evening rather than break her engagement. "
"That isn't the point, Hoddy. “And what on earth,” he said, “do you think
the world is made of? Why do you think I have been doing things for you? The
abstract pleasure of goodness? Are you one of the members of that great white
sisterhood that takes and does not give? The good accepting woman! Do you
really suppose a girl is entitled to live at free quarters on any man she meets
without giving any return?”
“I thought,” said Ann Veronica, “you were my friend. In the meanwhile, as he talked, he scrutinized her face, ran his
eyes over her careless, gracious poise, wondered hard about her. She pulled him towards the bed. O'Higgins was to keep
track of you until I believed you had had enough punishment. It was dry,
as if she had powdered it. She hated tricking Shari,
whose joy for life was the only thing that made her naive
enough to fall for laced iced tea or hot cocoa, depending
on the season. Did you
break my mother's heart as you tried to break mine? I am no longer accountable
to you for anything. What has become of the other?"
"Why, surely you don't mean Jack Sheppard?" cried the woollen-draper in
surprise. "
"I'll bring you an armful this afternoon. He himself, middle-aged, steeped in traditions of the City and moneymaking, very ill-skilled in all the lighter graces of life, as he himself well knew,
could yet come to her invested with something of the halo of romance by the
almost magical powers of an unlimited banking account. It’s just because all that side of your life hasn’t fairly
begun.
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