”
That night was the most intolerable one that Ann Veronica had ever spent. “Don’t think that I have been playing the spy upon you,” he continued. "But what does he mean by calling you a wanton?
—you, my wife?"
Enschede's hand slipped from his daughter's shoulder. I sha'n't utter a word. She wallowed for a time in the thought of Capes, unable to escape from
his image and the idea of his presence in her life. She would ignore him. But women—women as a rule don’t throw
themselves into things like that. He was the true optimist; and that he should proceed, serenely
unconscious of reefs and storms, she accepted the double buffets. 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. I mean my
cut-offs and boots. Occasionally she would be missing a
sock or a bra, so she took to storing those things in her
gym locker. Just as he was preparing to follow, the wherry containing
Rowland and his men, which had drifted in their wake, was dashed against his
boat. ’
Upon which, she darted through the library door, galvanising both the sergeant
and his two militiamen into action. Aha!" he
continued, producing a short silver staff, which he carried constantly about with
him, and uttering a terrible imprecation, "I see you're confounded.
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