“You are very stupid, Anna,” she said. ’
Alderley laughed. Hetty, looking out of the window—she always smoked her after-breakfast
cigarette at the window for the benefit of the less advanced section of
Morningside Park society—and trying not to raise objections, saw Miss Stanley
going down toward the shops. "
"You are from America?"
"Yes. So I come suppliant. But I shall lose my
wager if I stay a moment longer—so here goes. You have friends, acquaintances, social standing,
brothers and sisters, every advantage! Instead of which, you want to go to some
mixed classes or other and cut up rabbits and dance about at nights in wild
costumes with casual art student friends and God knows who. The odour of kerosene permeated the bungalow; but Ruth mitigated the nuisance
to some extent by burning native punk in brass jars. "I heard his voice; but I saw
them on the stairs, and durst not approach him, for fear of giving the alarm. Stanley determined to improve the occasion. The wall of the sky, the wall of the
horizon, the wall behind which each human being hid—the wall behind which
she herself was hiding! If only her mother had lived, her darling mother!
Presently the unhappy puzzlement left her face; and an inward glow began to
lighten it. Apparently he thought it very much worth while. But her words were
not addressed to Melusine.
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