They became aware of the waitress standing over them with book and pencil ready for their bill. As usual, however, on the occasion of any great calamity, a crowd was scouring the streets, whose sole object was plunder. Here was an appalling fact: all her previous loneliness had been trifling beside that which now encompassed her and would for years to come. After repeatedly trying to remove the plate, which was so firmly screwed down that it resisted all his efforts, and vainly attempting to pick it with the spike and nail; he, at length, after half an hour's ineffectual labour, wrenched off the box by means of the iron bar, and the door, as he laughingly expressed it, "became his humble servant. “Think of what Lady Palsworthy will say! Think of what”—So-and-so —“will say! What are we to tell people? “Besides, what am I to tell your father?” At first it had not been at all clear to Ann Veronica that she would refuse to return home; she had had some dream of a capitulation that should leave her an enlarged and defined freedom, but as her aunt put this aspect and that of her flight to her, as she wandered illogically and inconsistently from one urgent consideration to another, as she mingled assurances and aspects and emotions, it became clearer and clearer to the girl that there could be little or no change in the position of things if she returned. " "Poor soul!—poor soul!" groaned Wood, brushing the tears from his vision. "That would be certain destruction. Believe me, the bitterness of it has almost departed, crushed out of me together with much of the weariness and sorrow I brought with me here by the nameless glory of these lonely months. There are boats on the lake and shady depths and wildernesses of pine-wood. He spent the remainder of the afternoon looking for a friend whom he found at last in the billiard room of one of the smaller clubs to which he belonged. "The doctor and I agreed to give you a chance—for her sake.
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