" "De duivel!" exclaimed Van Galgebrok, "Very well. The door leaned inward. I’ve told you that practically already. I’m in a mess—a nasty mess! a filthy mess! Oh, no end of a mess! “Do you hear, Ann Veronica?—you’re in a nasty, filthy, unforgivable mess! “Haven’t I just made a silly mess of things? “Forty pounds! I haven’t got twenty!” She got up, stamped with her foot, and then, suddenly remembering the lodger below, sat down and wrenched off her boots. If only she had thought to plunge the scissors into her own heart! Hoddy … to return and find her either gone or dead! But even as the Wastrel's arms gathered her, there came the sound of hurrying steps on the veranda. As though accidentally she swept her skirts from a chair close drawn to her own. Little things, almost impalpable, had happened to justify that doubt; something in his manner had belied his words. But all this business has driven it clean out of my head. Perhaps the Parisian atmosphere had affected him. ‘There is Bernadette, Marie-Thérèse, Marie-Joséphine, Marie-Claire, Henriette—’ Exasperated, Gerald seized her by the shoulders. “Nevertheless,” Hill said doggedly, “I am here to speak to you alone. “I wonder,” he said, and went off at a tangent. Are you going to have any apple-tart, Stanley? The apple-tart’s been very good lately—very good!” Part 7 At the end of dinner that evening Ann Veronica began: “Father!” Her father looked at her over his glasses and spoke with grave deliberation; “If there is anything you want to say to me,” he said, “you must say it in the study.
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