“Why do you hate me again, my love?” He seemed to brighten, feeding upon the intensity of her emotion. Inexplicably there flashed into vision the Chinese wedding procession in the narrow, twisted streets of the city, that first day: the gorgeous palanquin, the tomtoms, the weird music, the ribald, jeering mob that trailed along behind. He has been bottling it up all the way from West Kensington. Take them, and may they prove as serviceable to you as I desire. “Nothing,” said Ann Veronica, and stared over her shoulder out of the window. ’ ‘You see, I am of them,’ she said seriously, ‘but not with them—yet. “I trust you altogether. ” “Well”—her breath failed her for a moment. Then she dropped the curtain and stepped back into the room. Ann Veronica was not ready enough to deal with that counter-stroke. But why didn't you let me know they were coming. “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. Gina, the eleven year old, just couldn’t take it and she ran away. Books were always sliding and slipping, clumsy objects to hold. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm.
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