Even her debt to him was a triviality now. For his own part he could not sufficiently admire the pluck of this lady, who, notwithstanding all that she had been through, had chosen to appear this evening rather than break her engagement. “I’m so glad you’re here, Peter,” she said. He himself, middle-aged, steeped in traditions of the City and moneymaking, very ill-skilled in all the lighter graces of life, as he himself well knew, could yet come to her invested with something of the halo of romance by the almost magical powers of an unlimited banking account. Ann Veronica forgot him as soon as she was through the gate, and her face resumed its expression of stern preoccupation. The youth produced a crumpled-up card from his waistcoat pocket. ‘Because,’ said Lady Bicknacre in the confidential manner of all matrons when passing on a tidbit of scandal, ‘Nicholas married against his father’s wishes and ran away.
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