“And what on earth,” he said, “do you think
the world is made of? Why do you think I have been doing things for you? The
abstract pleasure of goodness? Are you one of the members of that great white
sisterhood that takes and does not give? The good accepting woman! Do you
really suppose a girl is entitled to live at free quarters on any man she meets
without giving any return?”
“I thought,” said Ann Veronica, “you were my friend. "
"You are very good to me, Hoddy. She was already a little prepared by her discursive reading and discussion
under the Widgett influence for ideas and “movements,” though
temperamentally perhaps she was rather disposed to resist and criticise than
embrace them. "In the first place, she had no
knowledge of her birth; and, consequently, no false pride to get rid of. “Before I heard much Wagnerian music I heard enthusiastic descriptions of it
from a mistress I didn’t like at school. There we were discussing whether you should have a vote, and I
remembered the last occasion we met it was about your prospects of success in
the medical profession or as a Government official such as a number of women
now are, and all the time my heart was crying out within me, ‘Here is the Queen
of your career.
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