They talked for the better part of an hour, and at last walked together to the junction of highroad and the bridle-path. “What have I been all this time?” she asked herself, and answered, “Just stark egotism, crude assertion of Ann Veronica, without a modest rag of religion or discipline or respect for authority to cover me!” It seemed to her as though she had at last found the touchstone of conduct. Forgetting the dark thoughts of his last brush with the girl, he dropped the dagger back in his pocket, quickened his pace, and went back into the house to look for his hostess. For a time she brooded on the ideals and suggestions of the Socialists, on the vague intimations of an Endowment of Motherhood, of a complete relaxation of that intense individual dependence for women which is woven into the existing social order. ToC When Thames Darrell and Jack Sheppard sprang through the window, they were instantly assailed by Wild, Trenchard, and their attendants. So that Ann Veronica was not able to get the expert advice she certainly needed upon her spiritual state. ’ ‘But it is imbecile,’ interrupted Melusine, struck by the impracticalities of her father’s scheme. Insulting cries became frequent and various, but for the most part she could not understand what was said. I can pull the strings of this stiff-necked puppet as I please. The place was gloomy, with its darkly panelled walls, but it was sparsely furnished. What a pity! For all her ignorance of material things—the human inventions which served the physical comforts of man—how much she knew about man himself! She had seen him bereft of all those spiritual props which permit man to walk on two feet instead of four—broken, without resilience.
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