Wood could give him no further information respecting Sir
Rowland Trenchard than what he had obtained from Kneebone; but begged him
to defer the further consideration of the line of conduct he meant to pursue until
the morrow, when he hoped to have a plan to lay before him, of which he would
approve. He carried a cane and a silk hat with a mourning-band
in one gray-gloved hand; his frock-coat and trousers were admirable; his
handsome face, his black mustache, his prominent brow conveyed an eager
solicitude. After five or six years it would not be difficult to hide in Italy or in
France. ‘If you had told
him that I would rather die than see him, he would not have come. My parents refuse to
pay for my college. “Accident! She shot me,” he muttered. 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. A young man was
playing the banjo. ‘You kissed me that you might make me find it
for you instead?’
‘I had no such intention. Stanley, whose family had been by any reckoning
inconsiderable—to use the kindliest term. She had never
thought of him at all in that way before.
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