"His disguise was capital; but I detected it in a moment. . Miss Ellicot pursed her lips and sat a little more upright. That he should pay forty pounds to help this girl who preferred another man was no less in his eyes than a fraud and mockery that made her denial a maddening and outrageous disgrace to him. She had thought that all Morningside Park householders came home before seven at the latest, as her father usually did. The clerk at the Raffles Hotel had accorded her but scant interest. Perhaps the sunken cheeks and the protruding cheekbones gave her this impression. She turned towards the door, and had taken a pace towards it when it was flung open. But a far greater affliction was in store for her. Most people, every one I know else, seem to have mated with foreigners and to talk uneasily in unfamiliar tongues, to be afraid of the knowledge the other one has, of the other one’s perpetual misjudgment and misunderstandings. Remote little Ann Veronica! She would never know the heart of that child again! That child had loved fairy princes with velvet suits and golden locks, and she was in love with a real man named Capes, with little gleams of gold on his cheek and a pleasant voice and firm and shapely hands. Do have some tea, won’t you? If you must, go then.
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