“I believe so. And then
presently these clouds began to wear thin and expose steep, deep slopes, going
down and down, with grass and pine-trees, down and down, and at last, through
a great rent in the clouds, bare roofs, shining like very minute pin-heads, and a
road like a fibre of white silk-Macugnana, in Italy. She had thought that all Morningside Park
householders came home before seven at the latest, as her father usually did. Then she would have quiet times, in which she would say to herself, “Now
look here! Let me think it all out!”
For the first time, it seemed to her, she faced the facts of a woman’s position
in the world—the meagre realities of such freedom as it permitted her, the almost
unavoidable obligation to some individual man under which she must labor for
even a foothold in the world. “Listen, Annabel,” he said hoarsely. He was made welcome as McClintock's agent; but he politely declined all the
proffered courtesies. When Sheila was in a bad mood, she berated her new
foster daughter for streaks on the windows, dust on the
figurines, for crooked bed sheet corners, and floors that
had not been waxed properly. And would you
mind hurrying a little. ”
Part 4
Ann Veronica’s ideas of marriage were limited and unsystematic. The little girl uttered no remonstrance; but, replacing the flowers in the basket,
burst into tears, and withdrew. ”
“What did your aunt say?”
“She didn’t even kiss me.
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