‘Ah, bah, it is enough,’ she cried, and turning, ran out of the room. Pitt, the
governor, a tall pompous personage, who, in his turn, ushered in four other
individuals. “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 seem to have said just what had to be said. Their colloquy was ended abruptly by the apparition of Miss Klegg at the
further door. ”
“You, then,” he said, “are ‘Alcide. Here were the passionate
lovers! What their past had been he neither cared nor craved to know. And her kind of love forgives everything
and anything but infidelity. ‘I know,’ said Prudence Sindlesham, sympathy in her tone.
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