Her likeness to her sister gave him at first almost a shock; a moment afterwards he was conscious of a wonderful sense of relief. He brightened as she took off her hood. For a time Ann Veronica went on her way gauging the quality of sordid streets. Who invented them? Nobody knows. Finally she decided upon a step that had always seemed reasonable to her, but that hitherto she had, from motives too faint for her to formulate, refrained from taking. The nuns had no regard for the sensibilities of a “lady” and expected Melusine— for it was her allotted task—to clean and tend the soldier’s wounds even when they festered. Her mind turned and accused itself of having been cold and hard. That was one of the mysterious qualities of this child of the lagoon: she had always at instant service that Oriental mask of impenetrable calm that no Occidental trick could dislodge. “A new admirer, Annabel? But what has that to do with your going to England?” “Everything! He is Sir John Ferringhall—very stupid, very respectable, very egotistical. Stanley regarded him through his glasses with something approaching animosity. ’ ‘Not, I trust, Nicholas Charvill?’ ‘Hardly. “I do not know you,” she said coldly. His eyes never left her face. While I am talking about your friends, I feel—I think you ought to know how I look at it. Upstairs, in the little dressing-room, the panel was opened by means of tugging a small candlesconce in the wall.
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