Part 7 The steps by which Ann Veronica determined to engage herself to marry Manning were never very clear to her. For she and this old lady became at once friends. It's your eagerness that bothers me. He conveyed not only his sense of the extreme want of correctitude in their unsanctioned meetings, but also that, so far as he was concerned, this irregularity mattered not at all, that he had flung—and kept on flinging—such considerations to the wind.