All her tender lures, inherent and acquired, had shattered themselves futilely against the reserve he had set between them. Both ladies were on easy and friendly terms with all that was best in Morningside Park society; they had an afternoon once a month that was quite well attended, they sometimes gave musical evenings, they dined out and gave a finish to people’s dinners, they had a full-sized croquet lawn and tennis beyond, and understood the art of bringing people together. “Your best route will be via Boulogne and Folkestone at nine o’clock from the Gare du Nord. Feigning an air of casualness, Lucy asked the obvious. Ann Veronica looked up at him and found him regarding her with eyes that were almost woebegone, and into which, indeed, he was trying to throw much more expression than they could carry. ’ ‘What?’ gasped Alderley in shock. At any moment, Cathy Beck could arrive home and see them, then he would be eating dinner with 6 them, almost whether he liked it or not. It is not a dissipated face. “I was frightened then,” she declared. “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. There was a dreadful stifled groan, and she fell heavily upon the landing. “Annabel, I begin to see why you are here.
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