She smiled mechanically at the audience, holding her violin limply, feeling the hot lights on her made-up face. “It’s because I mean to send it back altogether,” she said. All the furniture was moved, all the meals were disarranged, and everybody, Ann Veronica included, appeared in new, bright costumes. It consisted of a full-dress coat of brown flowered velvet, laced with silver; a waistcoat of white satin, likewise richly embroidered; shoes with red heels, and large diamond buckles; pearlcoloured silk stockings with gold clocks; a muslin cravat, or steen-kirk, as it was termed, edged with the fine point lace; ruffles of the same material, and so ample as almost to hide the tips of his fingers; and a silver-hilted sword. And she’s pluck to the backbone. It will do its best to overlook things—” “If we let it, poor dear. I suppose my creed is, ‘I believe rather indistinctly in God the Father Almighty, substratum of the evolutionary process, and, in a vein of vague sentimentality that doesn’t give a datum for anything at all, in Jesus Christ, His Son. The thought allured him, and therein lay the danger. I am absolutely certain that up to the present we have escaped all notice, and I do not believe that any casual observer would take us for English people. Work becomes distasteful; one thinks of holidays.
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