A large dog was then set at him by a stable-boy; but, striking the animal with his faithful iron-bar, he speedily sent him yelping back. “That is where I got confused,” he said. As he passed the Six Bells, he noticed the steeds of the two horsemen at the door; and glancing into the house, perceived the younger of the two in the passage. ’ Captain Roding looked frowningly from one to the other. Ann Veronica was lying on her bed in a darkling room staring at the ceiling. The swelling in his limbs had also subsided. The night was now profoundly dark. After all, she found herself reflecting, behind her aunt’s complacent visage there was a past as lurid as any one’s—not, of course, her aunt’s own personal past, which was apparently just that curate and almost incredibly jejune, but an ancestral past with all sorts of scandalous things in it: fire and slaughterings, exogamy, marriage by capture, corroborees, cannibalism! Ancestresses with perhaps dim anticipatory likenesses to her aunt, their hair less neatly done, no doubt, their manners and gestures as yet undisciplined, but still ancestresses in the direct line, must have danced through a brief and stirring life in the woady buff. His slightest move caused her infinite pleasure. The McCloskeys had picked Lucy from a bunch of children languishing at the Illinois Christian Home for Children. “That,” he said, grimly, with his hand on the doorhandle, “must be your own affair, unless you choose to live at Morningside Park. There’s no sense in morality, I suppose, unless you are fundamentally immoral. At the sound of the door Ann Veronica uncovered a tearless face, and with one swift movement assumed a conversational attitude.
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