As she spoke she untied her little velvet bonnet and tossing it away with her long cloak stood looking at him with meditative eyes.
\"You've arranged it delightfully,\" he rejoined, alive to the flatness of the words, but imprisoned in the conventional by his consuming desire to be simple and striking.
\"Oh, it's a poor little place. My relations despise it. But at any rate it's less gloomy than the van der Luydens'.\"
The words gave him an electric shock,
As she spoke she untied her little velvet bonnet and tossing it away with her long cloak stood looking at him with meditative eyes.
\"You've arranged it delightfully,\" he rejoined, alive to the flatness of the words, but imprisoned in the conventional by his consuming desire to be simple and striking.
\"Oh, it's a poor little place. My relations despise it. But at any rate it's less gloomy than the van der Luydens'.\"
The words gave him an electric shock,
