She mounted the stairs of the theatrical agent’s office with very much less than her usual buoyancy, nor did she find much encouragement in the general appearance of the room into which she was shown. Gerald, whose French was adequate from his military service abroad, was able to respond suitably to such remarks as the ladies addressed to him, but was less exercised by their fashionable dress than their decidedly careworn appearance. "I could almost forgive the wretch the injury he did me in depriving me of my poor dear wife—No, not quite that," he added, a little confused. “What do you mean, hanging round with my wife?” he answered fiercely. Determined, however, not be taken with life, he held on. He knew it was unnerving, he did it to everyone, even his own kin. "Shir Rowland Trenchard's affair— eh?" "That's it," rejoined Jonathan; "I expect him here every minute. Her bonnet dropped off and was trampled into the gutter. But something instinctive prevented that, and with the finest resolve not to be “silly” and prudish she found that whenever he became at all bold in this matter she became severely scientific and impersonal, almost entomological indeed, in her method; she killed every remark as he made it and pinned it out for examination. He took her hand and looked into her eyes and spoke, divided against himself, in a voice that was forced and insincere. Nothing is wrong that you do. The face that looked down upon Ann Veronica was full of amiable intention. Surely his calculated desire to sit near her meant that his attention had surely been brought from its normal diversions into her realm.
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