” “But the marriage itself?” Sir John asked. "A little. ” Ann Veronica sat down, and Ramage’s eager eyes feasted on her. ’ ‘Sir!’ came from Trodger, and the booted feet clattered off and out of the front door. A remittance man. “I can only be a few years older than you, and I have been married four years. ” “Hul-LO!” said Hetty, turning her head on the pillow; and Teddy remarked with profound emotion, “My God!” “Yes,” said Ann Veronica, “and that complicates the situation. The air was sweet with the perfume of flowers, and the melody of murmuring insects, the blue sky was cloudless, the heat of the sun was tempered by the heather-scented west wind. She ignored his question. The ripple of the water against the boat, as its keel cleaves through the stream—the darkling current hurrying by—the indistinctly-seen craft, of all forms and all sizes, hovering around, and making their way in ghostlike silence, or warning each other of their approach by cries, that, heard from afar, have something doleful in their note—the solemn shadows cast by the bridges—the deeper gloom of the echoing arches—the lights glimmering from the banks—the red reflection thrown upon the waves by a fire kindled on some stationary barge—the tall and fantastic shapes of the houses, as discerned through the obscurity;—these, and other sights and sounds of the same character, give a sombre colour to the thoughts of one who may choose to indulge in meditation at such a time and in such a place. She traced him by his scent. And such skirts as Ann Veronica had had when she entered the valley of Saas were safely packed away in the hotel, and she wore a leather belt and loose knickerbockers and puttees—a costume that suited the fine, long lines of her limbs far better than any feminine walking-dress could do. But a total stranger, a man you never saw twentyfour hours ago! It can't be thought of. Some of the lunatics were rattling their chains; some shrieking; some singing; some beating with frantic violence against the doors. Hell's curses! that after all my precautions I should be thus entrapped.
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