” “I am not afraid,” she answered. Her heart in her mouth, hoping against hope, Melusine made her way back to where she had left the boy. Then a ride to London on horseback. Then as she drew nearer paint showed upon her face, and a harsh purpose behind the quiet expression of her open countenance, and a sort of unreality in her splendor betrayed itself for which Ann Veronica could not recall the right word—a word, half understood, that lurked and hid in her mind, the word “meretricious. He would get her to come to tea with him, usually in a pleasant tea-room over a fruit-shop in Tottenham Court Road, and he would discuss his own point of view and hint at a thousand devotions were she but to command him. “It isn’t quite that we’re toys. You certainly had to hand it to these Chinks. And if you mean that he may have reconciled himself with his own father, you waste your breath. He tried not to think—of Ruth with her mother's locket, of her misguided father, taking his lonely way to sea. They confronted each other, barely feet apart, neither apparently any longer aware of anyone else in the room.
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