“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. But she was disappointed. Will you read to me? I am tired; and the sound of your voice makes me drowsy. ‘And why not?’ ‘Because,’ Gerald said matter of factly, ‘convent-bred jeune demoiselles do not commonly know how to handle either pistols or daggers. She looked at him confusedly, his black hair glinting under the dim lights. She would meet him upon this ground: he should never be given the slightest hint that she was unhappy. Unobserved, she knelt and kissed the threshold: for she knew what kisses were now. “And now,” she said, splintering the surviving piece of coal into indignant flame-spurting fragments with one dexterous blow, “what am I to do? “I’m in a hole!—mess is a better word, expresses it better. There was a young lad ahead of her. The conversation which her entrance had interrupted began to buzz again all around her. Though within the last two days he had committed several heinous offences, and one of a darker dye than any with which the reader has been made acquainted, his breast was not yet so callous as to be wholly insensible to the stings of conscience. She turned out the electric light and gained the hall. “Alice—Alice gone dotty, and all over kids.
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