Chapter 10

Left alone, Mrs. Bleecker stood very still. There were sharp lights in her eyes. And quite strangely as she stood there, she did not seem small. She seemed as tall as her towering fury. Anthony, careless for the first time in his life of his mother’s disapproval, was saying to Virginia, “I’ve got to see you again.” “Have you?” “Yes. When?” Virginia had a sudden sense of excitement. She was not sure that she wanted him. She was not even certain that he attracted her. Yet to let him come to her would be an answer to …