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Besides, Violet was apt to be irritable at meal-times. "It's off, Vikes, that letting." He saw nothing at all unpleasant in the statement as it stood, and he was not prepared for the manner in which she received it. "Off? What d'you mean?" "I've been down and I've seen Mercier." "He told you what?" She had raised her head. Her red mouth slackened as if with the passage of some cry inaudible.
And all the time, in secret, it was taking hold of him, the delicious thought of property, of possession, of Granville as a thing that in twenty years' time would be his own. Brooding over Granville, Ranny's brain became fertile in ideas. He was always calling out to Violet: "Vikes! I've got another idea! When he gets all dirty next year I'll paint him green.
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