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He had something the matter with him, and he had come home to look after his own health. At least, Bartholomew's health was what he was supposed to be looking after; but Dorothy had heard her father say that Bartie had come home to look after Vera. Vera was Bartie's wife and Veronica's mother. Before she became Mrs. Bartholomew Harrison she had been Frances's schoolfellow and her dearest friend.
You could not think of Vera as the children's Auntie, or as Bartie's wife, or as Veronica's mother. Veronica was a very little girl who sang songs and was afraid of ghosts. When Vera beautiful in a beautiful gown, came trailing into the room where everybody waited for her, Veronica hid herself behind Uncle Anthony's big chair. A little girl with a straight white face.
He behaved to Vera and Veronica as if it was they who had worried him into cancer of the throat, they who tired and irritated him. Vera talked to him as you might talk to a sick child whose peevishness prolongs, unreasonably, its pain. Bartie's manner almost amounted to a public repudiation of her. The whole house vibrated to the shutting of his door at Good-night time.
He had to appear before the Board of Examiners that afternoon. He might be rejected again. But the standard was not so exacting as it had been John might be taken. He thought of his business John's business and his, and Bartie's. Those big Government contracts had more than saved them. They were making tons of money out of the War.
Either Vera must give up Major Cameron, signing a written pledge in the presence of three witnesses, Frances, Anthony and Bartie's solicitor, that she would neither see him nor write to him, nor hold any sort or manner of communication with him, direct or indirect, or he would obtain a judicial separation.
Spread wide apart under her wide forehead they were like dark moth's wings; they hovered, rested, flickering, vibrating to the fine tips of their corners. Whatever had been the matter with him in India, Captain Cameron had recovered. His keen, fair, Highland face made Bartie's face look terrible.
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