How the devil did you break a picture?’ ‘Don’t be obtuse, Hilary. “Well?” “You and all the rest of them are always lamenting that I do not marry. "Do you know what you are talking about, Mrs. Do you think that it makes for happiness to force oneself into the extravagant belief that love is the only thing in the world worth having, and to sacrifice for it independence, self-respect, one’s whole scheme of life. The necessity which had previously existed of leaving the ghastly evidence of the murderous deed undisturbed,—the presence of the mangled corpse,—the bustle of the inquest, at which her attendance was required,—all these circumstances produced a harrowing effect upon the young girl's imagination. The roofs and gables of many of the houses had been torn off. All at once he saw a way out of the threatening doldrums. “There were some Hampshire Pellissiers. He might solve the riddle. But you’ve got to lend me forty pounds. But she does not resemble you in any other way. She recognized him as the man who had blundered into the wrong room. Why? While the front of his mind was busy warning her not to fall into the hopeless miseries of underpaid teaching, and explaining his idea that for women of initiative, quite as much as for men, the world of business had by far the best chances, the back chambers of his brain were busy with the problem of that “Why?” His first idea as a man of the world was to explain her unrest by a lover, some secret or forbidden or impossible lover.
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