He seemed to avoid meeting Anna’s eyes as much as possible. 95
The officer showed her into the sleepy suburban
police station, a hub of inactivity on Sunday night except
for herself and a slightly drunk woman who had been
brought in for DUI. The kindly
faced landlady had failed to catch his name, and said he was a tall, handsome
gentleman with a great black mustache. ”
“Why not?”
“Free woman—and equal. ”
She looked up at him, and found he was watching her closely. "Well," growled Blueskin, "you've had my offer. If he had imagined Melusine
would be hampered by her petticoats, he was disappointed. Manning,
all this sort of thing is very well as sentiment, but does it correspond with the
realities? Are women truly such angelic things and men so chivalrous? You men
have, I know, meant to make us Queens and Goddesses, but in practice—well,
look, for example, at the stream of girls one meets going to work of a morning,
round-shouldered, cheap, and underfed! They aren’t queens, and no one is
treating them as queens. “You will be so good as to leave us your correct name and address,
mademoiselle,” he said curtly. ’
Gerald’s jaw tightened.
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