‘Don’t be too sure,’ responded Major Gerald Alderley on a dry note. It appears that he was an unsuccessful admirer of the lady in question, and he admits that, under the influence of drink, he broke into her rooms, and there made a determined attempt at suicide. Here was the corner-stone of a capital story; but he knew that Howard Spurlock would never write it. White will present her bill. He got out in much the same way from the Gatehouse,—stole the keys, and passed through a room where I was sitting half-asleep in a chair. He opened the door for her with a faint disagreeable smile. Then she called a hansom and drove home. She had a compartment to herself in the train from London to Morningside Park, and she sat with both her feet on the seat in an attitude that would certainly have distressed her mother to see, and horrified her grandmother beyond measure; she sat with her knees up to her chin and her hands clasped before them, and she was so lost in thought that she discovered with a start, from a lettered lamp, that she was at Morningside Park, and thought she was moving out of the station, whereas she was only moving in. Who could say that the two weren't in collusion? When a chap like Spurlock jumped the traces, cherchez la femme, every time. One realized indeed then where the differences lay; the tender curves about Anna’s mouth transformed into hard sharp lines in Annabel’s, the eyes of one, truthful and frank, the other’s more beautiful but with less expression—windows lit with dazzling light, but through which one saw—nothing. A person of somewhat artificial graces and mannerisms, she was for once in her life perfectly natural. \" She opened her eyes widely, as to better appear unworldly and unscathed. “Would YOU like us—if some one told you the bare outline of our story?— and what we are doing?” “I shouldn’t mind,” said Ann Veronica.
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