” He said as they parted company. Gerald’s breath caught. ’ ‘You were quite as bad to me as I was to you,’ Gerald protested mildly, sitting down beside her. When you don’t have any fingers left, I take a toe. Think—think of that engagement!” Their talk had come to eloquent silences that contradicted all he had to say. To a woman she might have confided; but to this man, kindly as he was, it was unthinkable. She warmed to him fast, her anger was much harder to carry than the pleasant everyday neutrality of affection. “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. Ann Veronica sat down in the other arm-chair and darned badly for a minute or so.
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