” “You are willing to give up your position, your beautiful houses, your carriages and milliner’s accounts to come back to Bohemianism?” “Why not?” Annabel declared. ‘Don’t put me at the necessity of marrying the abominable little wretch. Lights gleamed from the lower rooms, and, on a nearer approach to the building, the sound of revelry might be heard from within. You bring me this grandfather, whom you know well I do not in the least wish to see, for I have told you so. He seemed to possess a penetration and cunning beyond his years—to hide a man's judgment under a boy's mask. Only one thing emerged with any reasonable clarity in her mind at once, and that was that unless she was saved from drowning by an unmarried man, in which case the ceremony is unavoidable, or totally destitute of under-clothing, and so driven to get a trousseau, in which hardship a trousseau would certainly be “ripping,” marriage was an experience to be strenuously evaded. I had two offers of marriage from men I liked very much indeed, but it never occurred to me to listen to either of them. ‘No sense in snooping about down here,’ Gerald whispered. ‘But what in the world was she doing at Remenham House?’ ‘Your quickness is astounding, Lucy,’ Gerald told her admiringly. And turning again, as if the emotions she had churned up kept her on the move, she paced back to the mantel and there stopped, staring at her own reflection in the tarnished mirror. Every one turned to her in astonishment.
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