‘It is all too probable that she would wish to change
into lay clothing to escape recognition. “Hill has asked for you, and
they will take his depositions to-night. Her hair got loose, her hat came over one eye, and she had no arm free
to replace it. “You seem to have
come from Miss Pellissier’s rooms. Her father was right: Ruth must never know. I think it inadvisable—I don’t want an intimacy to spring up between
you and a man of that type. She had asked about that already, and her father had replied, evasively: “We’ll
have to see about that, little Vee; we’ll have to see about that. Anna picked up an ancient magazine, and began to
turn over the pages in a leisurely way. The woman shrugged her shoulders. She was still more stirred
by the idea of the equal citizenship of men and women, by the realization that a
big and growing organization of women were giving form and a generalized
expression to just that personal pride, that aspiration for personal freedom and
respect which had brought her to London; but when she heard Miss Miniver
discoursing on the next step in the suffrage campaign, or read of women
badgering Cabinet Ministers, padlocked to railings, or getting up in a public
meeting to pipe out a demand for votes and be carried out kicking and
screaming, her soul revolted. Who is the other?”
“What other?”
Her voice seemed to come from a long way off. Did he not look for her in
the morning when she entered—come very quickly to her? She thought of him
as she had last seen him looking down the length of the laboratory to see her go.
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