She felt herself shaking again. "Your health, Kneebone. At the Palazzo, the cook’s cook had a team of servants under him. The wine bubbled and seethed; and the exquisite bouquet of oranges permeated the room. For his own part he could not sufficiently admire the pluck of this lady, who, notwithstanding all that she had been through, had chosen to appear this evening rather than break her engagement. Ann Veronica, after a last survey of the dinner appointments, followed him, rustling, came to his side by the high brass fender, and touched two or three ornaments on the mantel above the cheerful fireplace. "Not in the least," returned Kneebone, slyly, "not in the least. It suited him to dampen the spirits of any who sought to impose upon him, as these relics of the loathed family of Valade seemed like to do. ‘As to Gérard, I do not know why he does this. It was a refusal of expediency, he said, and not an absolute refusal. And in reality even that magic garden-close resolves itself into a villa at Morningside Park and my father being more and more cross and overbearing at meals—and a general feeling of insecurity and futility.
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