They used
to marry us off at seventeen, rush us into things before we had time to protest. 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. “We have to get in, I think,” said a nice little old lady in a bonnet to
Ann Veronica, speaking with a voice that quavered a little. I do like to see old friends back here. “They wanted me to identify some one whom I had certainly never seen before
in my life, and to tell you the truth, they were positively rude to me because I
could not. And you think I would
marry you?’
‘Why not? I am unworthy, eh? Because I am a servant. I took him out of the hands of death. Other phrases returned now, like echoes. ’
‘Not, I trust, Nicholas Charvill?’
‘Hardly.
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