Hilary Roding was all soldier now, his earlier grievances laid aside. He taught her how to read and write in Latin and Greek, often rewarding her for her efforts with a flower or a trinket. He had had five children at irregular intervals, of whom Ann Veronica was the youngest, so that as a parent he came to her perhaps a little practised and jaded and inattentive; and he called her his “little Vee,” and patted her unexpectedly and disconcertingly, and treated her promiscuously as of any age between eleven and eight-and-twenty. If you could see how it gives them souls, women who have taken things for granted, who have given themselves up altogether to pettiness and vanity. She killed every month, twelve a year, and was for all intents and purposes a serial killer of middle aged men. “Dyed!” “And your figure?” “One’s corsetière arranges that. I guess. He had chosen his time well. He was in evening dress: swallow-tailed coat and white tie. “Then some of your family history is known to me. Have I your final answer?" "You have, Sir Rowland," she answered, in a feeble tone, but firmly. "Mrs. Lucy had baked the apple and pumpkin pies, carefully molding the flour crusts and adding extra teaspoonfuls of allspice and cinnamon while no one looked. I thought every one had heard about it. "Crime upon crime.
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