He drew a little sigh of relief. But I
am always afraid that he may get in while I am away. “How so?”
“I should have shared these things with you earlier, my
sweet heart. She became more and more alive, not
so much to a system of ideas as to a big diffused impulse toward change, to a
great discontent with and criticism of life as it is lived, to a clamorous confusion
of ideas for reconstruction—reconstruction of the methods of business, of
economic development, of the rules of property, of the status of children, of the
clothing and feeding and teaching of every one; she developed a quite
exaggerated consciousness of a multitude of people going about the swarming
spaces of London with their minds full, their talk and gestures full, their very
clothing charged with the suggestion of the urgency of this pervasive project of
alteration. Sometimes I
think you would have been much better off if you had
been born in death-worshipping Egypt instead of in the
Fourteenth Century. He accepted this confession conditionally: that no young man had kissed her. Do you think a jeune demoiselle may possess
more weapons than this?’
‘Most young ladies would not be in possession of any weapons,’ Gerald said
tartly. “All these days I have taken her for you. It’s—it’s a social difference. In short, more preparations were made than if a state criminal was about
to be executed. ’
‘Truly?’ Melusine said excitedly.
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