Anna said nothing. "When did you see him, my love?" "A short time ago," replied the housekeeper, unsuspiciously. ’ ‘Never mind the comtesse,’ adjured Prudence. Not wisely but too well. During the previous night he had been restless; and in the lonely dragging hours his thoughts had raced in an endless circle—action without progress. Ruth's mind was fertile soil; for a long time to come it would be something of a hothouse: green things would spring up and blossom overnight. Their conversation degenerated again and again into a strain of self-congratulation that would have irked an eavesdropper. For the face under her gaze she could find but one expression—fine. Well-balanced, sane, wasn’t I? You never heard anyone call me a madman? I’m pretty near being one now, and it’s her fault. Ann Veronica was not aware of this literary side of her teacher; she had a little tinge of annoyance at Miss Garvice’s advantage. She heard the television blaring away. Mr. Jack Kimble. Both had dropped the rather elaborate politeness of the dining-room, and in their faces an impartial observer would have discovered little lines of obstinate wilfulness in common; a certain hardness—sharp, indeed, in the father and softly rounded in the daughter—but hardness nevertheless, that made every compromise a bargain and every charity a discount.
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