"And now
to dispose of our dead. Only
you seem to me since the time when I knew you in Paris to have changed—to
have changed in some subtle manner which I find at times utterly bewildering. “That’s. Then she would have quiet times, in which she would say to herself, “Now
look here! Let me think it all out!”
For the first time, it seemed to her, she faced the facts of a woman’s position
in the world—the meagre realities of such freedom as it permitted her, the almost
unavoidable obligation to some individual man under which she must labor for
even a foothold in the world. “You’ll have to take her!” shouted an inspector on horseback, and she echoed
his cry: “You’ll have to take me!” They seized upon her and lifted her, and she
screamed. No! I
do not even know that he cares for me. He was no Hoddy, but a tremendous man, with hairy
arms and bearded face and drink-shattered intellect. "At all hazards then then you shall know the truth," replied the woollen-draper,
in a tone of affected solicitude,—"but are you really prepared?"
"Quite—quite!" replied Winifred. "'A wonderful fact to reflect
upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and
mystery to every other. It’s a thing
I’ve unaccountably overlooked. Her eyes glistened in the darkness—for light was only
admitted through a small grated window—like flames, and, as she fixed them on
him, their glances seemed to penetrate his very soul. "Your wife?"
"His lawful wife," said Ruth, with fine dignity. "You mistake,—you are mine. To tell someone who is kind and who will
understand!"
"There, there!" he said.
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