There we were discussing whether you should have a vote, and I
remembered the last occasion we met it was about your prospects of success in
the medical profession or as a Government official such as a number of women
now are, and all the time my heart was crying out within me, ‘Here is the Queen
of your career. Your life is like a funeral March. And Ann Veronica walked
beside him, trying in vain to soften her heart to him by the thought of how she
had ill-used him, and all the time, as her feet and mind grew weary together,
rejoicing more and more that at the cost of this one interminable walk she
escaped the prospect of—what was it?—“Ten thousand days, ten thousand
nights” in his company. It was, in a way, something of a joke to the
doctor: psychology and physiognomy on an island which white folks did not
visit more than three or four times a year, only then when they had to. Part 8
“Why should I ever come back?” she said to herself, as she went down the
staircase. ‘What was you wanting it for,
may I ask?’
‘You may not ask, for it is none of your affair,’ Melusine snapped.
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