‘Tell me about the convent? Were you happy there?
They were kind to you, the nuns?’
‘Oh, but yes. It seems that he was a sort of
family friend of the Pellissiers, and it was the artist sister whom he was with. He accepted the glass of wine, and bowed. Capes had altered scarcely at all during the interval, except for a new
quality of smartness in the cut of his clothes, but Ann Veronica was nearly half
an inch taller; her face was at once stronger and softer, her neck firmer and
rounder, and her carriage definitely more womanly than it had been in the days
of her rebellion. She
approached a soft-looking bespectacled girl she had seen
once in the halls and noticed for her haunted look. Each manuscript was like the other: the same lovely treatment
of an unlovely subject. ‘Pen and paper, do you have them?’
‘Danged if I have,’ came the truculent response. ”
With a swift movement she gained the bell and rang it. After all, that was life. Efforts were made to staunch his wounds and
surgical assistance sent for. That is all I
ask. “About my sister,” she repeated slowly. I shan't drive a hard bargain.
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