He embraced her, kissing her cheek, then her neck. The road which wound by Westbourne Green, gave him a full view of the hill of Hampstead with its church, its crest of houses, and its villas peeping from out the trees. He had meant to be master of his fate that evening and it had escaped him altogether. Did she suppose him a possible pretender to her daughter’s hand? The girl—Dorothée, if memory served—was clearly marriageable, but he imagined most of these unhappy exiles were all but penniless. ‘Precisely,’ agreed Gerald. It dawned upon him that he had been abominably used by Ann Veronica. ‘To take a baby all the way to France without a wet-nurse. You remember that you saw us at the Savoy a few evenings ago?” “Yes. They are for serving me. Neither did his interest,—which was by no means inconsiderable,—nor his general popularity, procure him the preferment he desired. She’ll have to wait for dinner,” he said, uncomfortably.
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