We stepped from the Embassy into the motor—and oh! I thought that he was dead. 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. Perhaps once it had desired some other human being intolerably. She cried out with the pain of it. "By all means," returned Wood; "don't delay an instant. In the northwest angle, there was a small pen for female offenders, and, on the south, a more commodious enclosure appropriated to the master-debtors and strangers. I wonder if some of them did—and it didn’t get reported. But if we had gone under—!” They regarded one another silently, and Ann Veronica had one of her penetrating flashes. South America was big; but ten thousand islands, scattered all over the biggest ocean on the map! Nearly all of them clear of the ship lanes and beaten tracks! The best thing he could do would be to call up the Quai d'Orsay and turn over the job to Lecocq. They had a universe to talk about—two universes. She did not answer him, as she did not know what to say. “Do you mean, aunt,” she asked, “that my father thought I had gone off—with some man?” “What else COULD he think? Would any one DREAM you would be so mad as to go off alone?” “After—after what had happened the night before?” “Oh, why raise up old scores? If you could see him this morning, his poor face as white as a sheet and all cut about with shaving! He was for coming up by the very first train and looking for you, but I said to him, ‘Wait for the letters,’ and there, sure enough, was yours. I am something of an old fogey, Anna, I’m afraid, but if you treat me like this you will teach me to forget it. She hesitated in answering the door, her violin still crooked underneath her chin. And all the old—the old trick of shrinking up like a snail at a touch.
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