” “Oh, well!” he said, a little doubtfully, “it’s just a phase,” and bent down and rested his hand on her shoulder for a moment, with his heart beating and his nerves a-quiver. . She had viewed them askance, and without exchanging ideas with any one else in the world about them. Sebastian dared not approach her. “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. “You promised faithfully to be there,” he said slowly. “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. As if we didn’t know! The practical trouble is our ages. Oddly, he was seldom angry with her as Gianfrancesco would have been. “Never mind, old chap,” he declared. She could smell the sweet girl child he had buried in the garage in autumn, 1 even under the frozen ground.
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