” Chapter XXV THE STEEL EDGE OF THE TRUTH The manservant, with his plain black clothes and black tie, had entered the room with a deferential little gesture. I do not intend to allow you to forget. Bounding the corner of a garden wall, he came upon his former place of imprisonment. Joan told me it was hung somewhere in the house, only I couldn’t remember where after all this time. I didn’t allow myself to see things as they were in those days; now I do. The cloth was removed, and Wood, drawing the table as near the window as possible—for it was getting dusk —put on his spectacles, and opened that sacred volume from which the best consolation in affliction is derived, and left the lovers—for such they may now be fairly termed—to their own conversation. But for a long time, anyhow, we lovers have to be as if we were no more than friends. You are not my husband. So presently they got into a hansom together, and Ann Veronica sat back feeling very luxurious and pleasant, and looked at the light and stir and misty glitter of the street traffic from under slightly drooping eyelids, while Ramage sat closer to her than he need have done, and glanced ever and again at her face, and made to speak and said nothing. "Well," she said, in reply, "I may have done Jack an injustice.
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