’ Much to Melusine’s chagrin, Gerald folded his arms and leaned back, as if wholly at his ease. She had heard of women journalists, women writers, and so forth; but she was not even admitted to the presence of the editors she demanded to see, and by no means sure that if she had been she could have done any work they might have given her. ToC Ascending a short flight of steps, Jack found at the summit a door, which being bolted in the inside he speedily opened. Not since she had discovered it had Ruth touched or opened the mission Bible; but to-night (the same upon which the wonderful manuscripts started on their long and circuitous voyage to America) she was inexplicably drawn to it. Perhaps in the beginning the women made fools of themselves over him. It was a large room, about twenty feet long and fifteen broad, and had an arched stone roof. The preparations to meet him were immense, roses were planted everywhere, white and drooping with honeyed fragrance. Cursed him for his devotion that had made him come back for her, only to get himself shot by the fiendish Gosse. Mother had forced Lucy to memorize the ingredients of the stews, fairly beating them into her, spanking her backside when she rebelled. ’ ‘I have English a little,’ the girl offered, her voice shaking as she essayed a smile and sank into a curtsy. But the people among whom she was now thrown through the social exertions of Miss Miniver and the Widgetts—for Teddy and Hetty came up from Morningside Park and took her to an eighteen-penny dinner in Soho and introduced her to some art students, who were also Socialists, and so opened the way to an evening of meandering talk in a studio—carried with them like an atmosphere this implication, not only that the world was in some stupid and even obvious way WRONG, with which indeed she was quite prepared to agree, but that it needed only a few pioneers to behave as such and be thoroughly and indiscriminately “advanced,” for the new order to achieve itself. Let’s go.
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