“You be off, missie,” said the fatherly policeman. And now she insisted that she MUST leave the
chastened security of the Tredgold Women’s College for Russell’s unbridled
classes, and wanted to go to fancy dress dances in pirate costume and spend the
residue of the night with Widgett’s ramshackle girls in some indescribable hotel
in Soho!
He had done his best not to think about her at all, but the situation and his
sister had become altogether too urgent. . ”
“Let me tell you the reason you are here. What a pity!
For all her ignorance of material things—the human inventions which served the
physical comforts of man—how much she knew about man himself! She had
seen him bereft of all those spiritual props which permit man to walk on two feet
instead of four—broken, without resilience. There was a very white-faced
youngster of eighteen who brushed back his hair exactly in Russell’s manner,
and was disposed to be uncomfortably silent when he was near her, and to whom
she felt it was only Christian kindness to be consistently pleasant; and a lax
young man of five-and-twenty in navy blue, who mingled Marx and Bebel with
the more orthodox gods of the biological pantheon. ”
She sat quite still looking at him. Let—it—fall. His glasses were gone. Imperceptibly almost Ann Veronica began to acquire the new
attitude, even while her mind still resisted the felted ideas that went with it. It
ran in rivulets down her face, penetrating her hood and
the thick quilting of her coat. Melusine giggled, and tucked her hand into his.
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