If she had once known him, if he were some former neighbour, it would be comprehensible. “Everybody is taking it up,” said Miss Miniver. She appeared not to have realised the implications of her outburst, but clung a little to Gerald’s hands which had taken hers in a comforting clasp. There was no sense in creating further difficulties for herself by arguing with the sergeant over her identity. We do not remember to have met with a single individual, reported to be under petticoat government, who was not content with his lot,—nay, who so far from repining, did not exult in his servitude; and we see no way of accounting for this apparently inexplicable conduct—for which, among other phenomena of married life, various reasons have been assigned, though none entirely satisfactory to us—except upon the ground that these domineering dames possess some charm sufficiently strong to counteract the irritating effect of their tempers; some secret and attractive quality of which the world at large is in ignorance, and with which their husbands alone can be supposed to be acquainted. "By G—! she has missed her footing. "Stop thief!" roared Jonathan, who perceived the fugitive hurrying along a street towards Hatton Garden. “Not a penny—not one penny—and never darken your doors again!” Part 4 The next day her aunt came again and expostulated, and was just saying it was “an unheard-of thing” for a girl to leave her home as Ann Veronica had done, when her father arrived, and was shown in by the pleasant-faced landlady. The winter had turned sea and sky to a wet gray.
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