One or two of the tables were occupied by groups of fat frowzy women in flat caps, with rings on their thumbs, and baskets by their sides; and no one who had listened for a single moment to their coarse language and violent abuse of each other, would require to be told they were fish-wives from Billingsgate. “My dear,” she said, when she could get her breath, “you must come home at once. Ennison,” she exclaimed, “is that really you?” There was no sign of embarrassment in her manner. “I’d give anything,” he remarked, “to see our little Vee happily and comfortably married. ’ ‘But where? Where has he gone? Always he goes off, and he says no word to anyone. Don't you remember? There were four of us, and we went touring in the city. It was a cheerful, irresponsible, shamelessly hard-up family in the key of faded green and flattened purple, and the girls went on from the High School to the Fadden Art School and a bright, eventful life of art student dances, Socialist meetings, theatre galleries, talking about work, and even, at intervals, work; and ever and again they drew Ann Veronica from her sound persistent industry into the circle of these experiences. She met the keen grey eyes of a clean-shaven man, between forty and fifty, quietly dressed in professional attire. I can be that man, the one I know you want. Time was moving so fast, she could no longer count the days since Gosse had come to her with his preposterous suggestion at the Coq d’Or, where they were staying and where he had robbed her and left her and Martha to their fate.
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