Nobody regards
Constance or Vee as a delicate trifle. ‘Gerald, what have you been about? Dorothée tells me that you were
flirting outrageously with Madame Valade on Monday night. No window. I am glad or
sorry according as it has brought you happiness. 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. His name is carved upon a beam up stairs. You don't notice the heat; but it is always there,
pressing down. Giles Bowl
I. Then she would have quiet times, in which she would say to herself, “Now
look here! Let me think it all out!”
For the first time, it seemed to her, she faced the facts of a woman’s position
in the world—the meagre realities of such freedom as it permitted her, the almost
unavoidable obligation to some individual man under which she must labor for
even a foothold in the world. She
fell into another depression, refusing to touch Sebastian
or call him husband when he demanded it. ”
With a little crash the pistol fell from her shaking fingers. Nice goings on. Fool that I was to marry for beauty! I ought to have remembered
that a fair woman and a slashed gown always find some nail in the way.
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