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. While this was taking place, another and more serious interruption occurred. "Lor' ha' mussy, Sir!—how you do talk," said the woman; "this is no robber, I'm
sure. Until two hours ago she was as contented and as
happy as a linnet. “Queer
letters he writes,” she said. It contained three sovereigns, six and fourpence, two postage stamps, a small
key, and her aunt’s return half ticket to Morningside Park. ”
“Well, fuck you too. Courtlaw
rose to his feet. From under his pillow he
dragged forth the key to the trunk. She would marry him. It was a second reminder that against her claim to go free and untrammelled
there was a case to be made, that after all it was true that a girl does not go alone
in the world unchallenged, nor ever has gone freely alone in the world, that evil
walks abroad and dangers, and petty insults more irritating than dangers, lurk. Thames Street was wholly impassable. What can a girl do?
Somewhere at this point Ann Veronica’s speculations were interrupted and
turned aside by the approach of a horse and rider. I’d come back from the ends of the earth.
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