’ He grinned. The young man was mollified by her sympathy, and flattered by the obvious attempts of several of the other guests to draw him into conversation. Then she glanced at the cards again, over which her aunt’s many-ringed hand played, and then at the rather weak, rather plump face that surveyed its operations. The order was promptly obeyed, and the horses proceeded at a furious pace along the Edgeware Road. His voice had changed, the joy had gone out of it; and she understood that something from the past had rolled up to spoil this hour. " "Most likely," observed Jonathan, with a slight sneer; "the ghost of some highwayman who has just breathed his last in Newgate, no doubt. He has given orders that no one is to disturb him. “No thanks. Perhaps I deceived you about it. She had made her first fight for dignity and freedom as a grown-up and independent Person, and this was how the universe had treated her. 70 <9> A MARRIAGE, PART II She dreamt of the inn they had stopped at after her suicide attempt, the flea-ridden hostel her husband had angrily toted her to after the incident at the country house. “Why should women be dependent on men?” she asked; and the question was at once converted into a system of variations upon the theme of “Why are things as they are?”—“Why are human beings viviparous?”—“Why are people hungry thrice a day?”—“Why does one faint at danger?” She stood for a time looking at the dry limbs and still human face of that desiccated unwrapped mummy from the very beginnings of social life.
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