Most of it had been
incomprehensible to her, or comprehensible in a way that checked further
curiosity, but the figure of Vivien, hard, capable, successful, and bullying, and
ordering about a veritable Teddy in the person of Frank Gardner, appealed to her. " She paused. She remained standing
stiffly, unable even to move. CHAPTER XIII. ”
“And I have been dreaming and thinking—”
“I am frightfully sorry. The sound
of their strident voices floated upwards, the high nasal note of the predominant
Americans, the shrill laughter of girls quick to appreciate the wit of such of their
male companions as thought it worth while to be amusing. ’
‘How can you say so?’ protested Melusine. Manning; secondly, by some measure or other, she meant
to go on with her studies, not at the Tredgold Schools but at the Imperial
College; and, thirdly, she was, as an immediate and decisive act, a symbol of just
exactly where she stood, a declaration of free and adult initiative, going that
night to the Fadden Ball. Sir John once more looked around him. She pushed at the closer of
the two soldiers bearing the precious burden. She moved then, fast, taking refuge
behind a Chinese screen that was set beside the four-poster at the back of the
room. I do swear. She had never been to the opera before except as one of a
congested mass of people in the cheaper seats, and with backs and heads and
women’s hats for the frame of the spectacle; there was by contrast a fine large
sense of space and ease in her present position. But probably not the truth.
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