“Of course,” he ventured, “I could try for more at the ‘Alhambra. Ann Veronica sat firelit by her tea-tray with, quite unconsciously, the air of an expert hostess. And we won’t make it so. The very facts that Miss Miniver never stated an argument clearly, that she was never embarrassed by a sense of self-contradiction, and had little more respect for consistency of statement than a washerwoman has for wisps of vapor, which made Ann Veronica critical and hostile at their first encounter in Morningside Park, became at last with constant association the secret of Miss Miniver’s growing influence. It was rigged up for the occasion as it has been many a time before. The windows were still darkened—perhaps she was not home yet. Melusine tilted her head to catch sight of her neck, and froze, staring at the image. In a moment the brisk evening breeze caught the lank canvas and bellied it taut. Not content with this exhibition of her prowess, the Amazon lifted him up as easily as if he had been an infant, and placed him upon her shoulders, to the infinite delight of the company, and the increased distress of his mother. The odour of coconut prevailed, delicately but abidingly; for, save for the occasioned pleasure junket, The Tigress was a copra carrier, shell and fibre. A bad sign; it signified that the heart action was in a precarious state. ‘Here were you patiently waiting, without uttering one word of complaint the entire time, which of course you never do, being yourself a female altogether of a disposition extremely sweet and charming without the least vestige of a temper—’ ‘Gérard,’ Melusine uttered on a warning note, desperately trying to control the quiver at her lip.
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