“What made
you think” he said, abruptly, with the gleam of avidity in his face, “that love
makes people happy?”
“I know it must. ’
‘Also stealing,’ added Gerald, with a gesture at the clothes on the bed. Hawk and Buzzard. His quiet, kindly smile implied his serene disbelief in any confessible thing. She leaned back as he climbed on top of her and
kissed her mouth again. Gerald perhaps would know how to find him. "Why it is astonishing, certainly," remarked Kneebone, "to find any woman
constant—especially to a girlish attachment; but such is the case. “It’s no sort of good, Ann Veronica, pretending one does believe when one
doesn’t. ‘What in the world is that?’ demanded Miss Froxfield. Manning,
all this sort of thing is very well as sentiment, but does it correspond with the
realities? Are women truly such angelic things and men so chivalrous? You men
have, I know, meant to make us Queens and Goddesses, but in practice—well,
look, for example, at the stream of girls one meets going to work of a morning,
round-shouldered, cheap, and underfed! They aren’t queens, and no one is
treating them as queens. “What are you doing here? How dare you come to my
rooms!”
The man stepped into the middle of the room. “Look here,” he cried out of a silence, with a sudden flash of understanding,
“did you mean to throw me over when you came out with me this afternoon?”
Ann Veronica hesitated, and with a startled mind realized the truth. ”
He sidled toward her, but she recoiled from him, leaving him in possession of
the hearth-rug. They drove
rapidly through the emptying streets.
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