They used
to marry us off at seventeen, rush us into things before we had time to protest. ‘Yes, do,’ approved Lucilla. I am sure that he can be got rid of. Everywhere else—the law,
medicine, the Stock Exchange—prejudice bars us. But she made a pretence of struggling a little, for it
would be out of character for her not to do so and she did not want to arouse his
suspicions. We may meet—who can tell? But I will not be fettered, even though you would
make the chains of roses. Loneliness—something that was almost physical: as if the vitality had been
taken out of the air she breathed. “Well,” she said. "As I said before,
I have little reliance upon professions of gratitude. At last the panel swung back
into the library. “I suppose
you’ll come to the point soon—if there is one. Wood the carpenter. He bore it as long as he could, watching all
the time with fascinated eyes Annabel moving gracefully about amongst her
guests, always gay, with a smile and a whisper for nearly everybody. The tree-lined streets
were silent except for the sporadic revving of glass packs
down Church Avenue. Earles scratched his chin for a moment thoughtfully.
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