’
There was no denial in Martha’s face, though Melusine longed to hear her
words contradicted. ’ With an unexpected flush of pleasure,
he recalled the girl’s antics. “And what on earth,” he said, “do you think
the world is made of? Why do you think I have been doing things for you? The
abstract pleasure of goodness? Are you one of the members of that great white
sisterhood that takes and does not give? The good accepting woman! Do you
really suppose a girl is entitled to live at free quarters on any man she meets
without giving any return?”
“I thought,” said Ann Veronica, “you were my friend. Shall we say at half-past seven?”
She rose from her chair. He had sufficient strength
to wait upon himself. “I think that you are very dense. out of the ten or twelve people one meets in a month
not only say but feel and assume a thing, it is very hard not to fall into the belief
that the thing is so. And they’ll shut the gates presently. ’
‘He had no further need of them,’ Gosse said and his laugh sounded heartless
to Melusine. ’
‘I don’t know,’ confessed Gerald.
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