“My sister and I,” she said slowly, “have seen very little of each other lately. ”
“It is very nice of you,” Anna said softly. Before a word could
be said, however, a slight noise was heard in the chimney, and Jack with his
irons on descended from it. So long. He
was ill at ease, though he would not have confessed his disquietude even to
himself. At least that, I think, is what
makes a clever woman’s independent career so much more difficult than a clever
man’s. Seeing Jack at liberty, he instantly seized
him, and a struggle commenced. ’
‘Ah, but why remain penniless? After all, your grandfather Charvill—’
‘Again with the grandfather? Mon ami, if you imagine that this grandfather
will welcome a daughter of Nicholas Charvill, whom he has never forgiven that
he married a Frenchwoman, then you have an imagination entirely wrong. Your life, and that of your child, are in my power. Why? While the
front of his mind was busy warning her not to fall into the hopeless miseries of
underpaid teaching, and explaining his idea that for women of initiative, quite as
much as for men, the world of business had by far the best chances, the back
chambers of his brain were busy with the problem of that “Why?”
His first idea as a man of the world was to explain her unrest by a lover, some
secret or forbidden or impossible lover. . "
"Would you be angry if I offered it to you?"
"Very.
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