He paused at the bamboo curtain of her room, which was in semi-darkness. At last he took up his thoughts again: “I wonder if, some day, one
won’t need to rebel against customs and laws? If this discord will have gone?
Some day, perhaps—who knows?—the old won’t coddle and hamper the young,
and the young won’t need to fly in the faces of the old. She heard him come in;
the light burned on. The immense disillusionment that awaited him! The devastating
disillusionment! She had a vague desire to run after him, to state her case to him,
to wring some understanding from him of what life was to her. Fellows are drawing up the necessary papers, but gave Gerald a letter of
authorisation for you, mademoiselle, to use in the interim. He walked her home. “Then turn round and go back there,” she directed. It is the immediate inspiration of confidence; it alleviates pain, because we know
by that smile that pain is soon to leave us; it becomes the bulwark against our
depressive thoughts of death; and it is the promise that we still have a long way
to go before we reach the Great Terminal.
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