The quiet encounter and home-coming Ann Veronica and she had contemplated was entirely disorganized by this misadventure; there were no adequate explanations, and after they had settled things at Ann Veronica’s lodgings, they reached home in the early afternoon estranged and depressed, with headaches and the trumpet voice of the indomitable Kitty Brett still ringing in their ears. It was, in his opinion, the most astonishing letter he had ever read. He spoke the automatic thought that entered his mind. ‘Both of them so wise after the event. She flung herself back into the bare little room, cold, empty, comfortless. Was the man debating whether or no to tell the truth? A grimace played about Valade’s mouth and the general waited, maintaining his own rigid pose. Earles closed the piano with a little bang. He had taken it back. But she no longer obsessed over heresy, no longer did she feel cursed by God. ‘Valade, if you don’t mind. But I’m not a slut either, if that’s what you think. ’ The pathetic sob which accompanied the last word had a signal effect on two of the company at least. To preach a fine sermon every Sunday so that he would lose neither the art nor the impulse; and this child, in secret rebellion, taking it down in long hand during odd hours in the week! Preaching grandiloquently before a few score natives who understood little beyond the gestures, for the single purpose of warding off disintegration! It reminded the doctor of a stubborn retreat; from barricade to barricade, grimly fighting to keep the enemy at bay, that insidious enemy of the white man in the South Seas—inertia.
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