” Anna’s eyes were a little dim as she poured out her coffee, and the laugh she attempted was not altogether a success. Her eyes fell, and then sought his again with timid interest. The clerk at the Raffles Hotel had accorded her but scant interest. Instead of English villas and cottages there were chalets and Italian-built houses shining white; there were lakes of emerald and sapphire and clustering castles, and such sweeps of hill and mountain, such shining uplands of snow, as she had never seen before. It was a moment or two before Gerald, opening his eyes on the girl’s astounded expression, recollected himself sufficiently to pull out of the extraordinary impact she’d had on him. Now lend me your own hand. And to think that there they are making history! There they are putting together the plans of a new world. As she talked she made weak little gestures with her hands, and she thrust her face forward from her bent shoulders; and she peered sometimes at Ann Veronica and sometimes at a photograph of the Axenstrasse, near Fluelen, that hung upon the wall. ” He said. Also he had said—laughing in that way with his eyes which made a flutter in her chest— that Prudence will find an Englishman to marry her. Think—think of that engagement!” Their talk had come to eloquent silences that contradicted all he had to say. This year—I’ve got it badly. It’s the feinting tricks you have to watch for. I suppose I was a little idiotic—I don’t think we either of us mentioned the future, but it was arranged that I should go the next afternoon and have tea with her. He was, in fact, quite eager to go on living.
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