singing-pitch

Updated: May 15, 2025

Then suddenly, in front of all those windows, he folded her in his arms and pressed her to him, and kissed her unresisting face. "Don't!" cried Ann Veronica, struggling faintly, and he released her. "Forgive me," he said. "But I am at singing-pitch." She had a moment of sheer panic at the thing she had done. "Mr. Manning," she said, "for a time Will you tell no one? Will you keep this our secret?

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - Ann Veronica, a modern love story