“What have I been all this time?” she asked herself, and answered, “Just stark egotism, crude assertion of Ann Veronica, without a modest rag of religion or discipline or respect for authority to cover me!” It seemed to her as though she had at last found the touchstone of conduct. ToC On the following night—namely Monday,—the family assembled together, for the first time since the fatal event, in the chamber to which Thames had been introduced on his arrival at Dollis Hill. Nor, he would wager, had the heroic Monsieur Valade, who had rescued her from that life and brought her to England, taught her in that short time all that Gerald was certain she knew of men. He shot at me at the ‘Unusual,’ and the magistrates bound him over to keep the peace. If she kept on, would she make it out of the door? Then what? He could come after her before she could reach the secret passage. ’ Abruptly, the niggling doubt that had been plaguing Lord Charvill came sweeping to the surface. ‘I am extremely displeased. To-night they say he will be conscious. His invalid wife and her money had been only the thin thread that held his life together; beaded on that permanent relation had been an inter-weaving series of other feminine experiences, disturbing, absorbing, interesting, memorable affairs. But when all was over, a sorrowful calm succeeded, and, if not free from grief, she was tranquil.
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