The comments on the makeover lessened but were replaced by long admiring glances by boys who had never before given her the time of day. While I have been pestering you, have you heard it? At least, you heard the first act. “Cheer up, Annabel. She became aware that at regular intervals a light flashed upon her face and a bodiless eye regarded her, and this, as the night wore on, became a torment. ” They were in the elder Widgett girl’s bedroom; Hetty was laid up, she said, with a sprained ankle, and a miscellaneous party was gossiping away her tedium. ‘Come, Hilary. Mark you, she wasn’t the only one. Mesdames Thierry and Poussaint appeared delighted to meet Gerald, and he was obliged to do the pretty to their daughters too. ’ ‘Success?’ Her eyes narrowed. ‘Why does this person say you are mad?’ ‘Because I am risking having my head blown off,’ Gerald answered cheerfully. My proposition is for you to keep an eye on him, and the moment he puts on his clothes to send me a telegram, care of the HongKong Hotel. A couple of gilt straight-backed chairs only. He had shaved his side-whiskers and come over in flannels, but he was still indisputably the same person who had attended Ann Veronica for the measles and when she swallowed the fish-bone. "Won't you take these?" For a space he merely stared at her, perhaps wondering if she were real.
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