“Fred,” he said, “do you remember taking me to dinner at the ‘Ambassador’s,’ one evening last September, to meet a girl who was singing there? Hamilton and Drummond and his lot were with us. A corner could hold the promise of a shelf of dainty crystals, volcanic ices of rainbow colors, or figurines of saints sculpted from horn and bone reenacting their martyrdoms on delicate miniature wooden stages. They had got all this down already—they heard the substance of it now for the fourteenth time. Sebastian dared not approach her. She read for half an hour, then closed the book because Spurlock appeared to have fallen asleep. “Do tell me all about it. “You cannot say that you did not expect me,” he answered. Washed in light from the vestry window, she held her ground, all thought at bay, bar the steel determination long ago instilled in her by her unconventional tutor. She may address me as “Grandfather” if she chooses, since I’m obliged to accept her in that capacity. She had come to despise those who were fertile out of pure jealousy, but could not admit it to herself. That he’s come here at all shows he’ll stop at nothing. There was a pleasant numbness in the bottle; that's why I went to it. How was I to know what would happen? He always said if he couldn’t get you a dowry, you could take the veil. She had asked about that already, and her father had replied, evasively: “We’ll have to see about that, little Vee; we’ll have to see about that.
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