“Don’t!” she said, weakly, as he had bent down and put one arm about her and seized her hands with his disengaged hand and kissed her—kissed her almost upon her lips. ‘There is little I can do at present. Ann Veronica found herself incompetent, undignified, and detestable, holding on desperately to a hardening antagonism to her father, quarrelling with him, wrangling with him, thinking of repartees—almost as if he was a brother. Who? Could it be Gerald? Quickly, she looked back at Gosse’s face, and found him frowning. She found herself asking more and more curiously, “Why, on the principle of the survival of the fittest, have I any sense of beauty at all?” That enabled her to go on thinking about beauty when it seemed to her right that she should be thinking about biology. “I don’t see there’s any getting away from the fact that you and I love each other,” he said, slowly. ’ The possibility was indeed remote, for there had been no trouble with France since the Peace of Versailles had been signed six years ago. ‘You mean that his missus is pretending to be my mistress? Lord-a-mercy!’ ‘Precisely. I hope you have learned your lesson now and come to see—come to realize—how things are. After all, if one could wait twenty years or more in between bouts of lovemaking, one could certainly wait a few more days.
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