I made Hainault’s acquaintance, stood him drinks, lent him money. Anything that had love in it! The doctor comprehended that he also had his work cut out. The colouring was green and white, with softly shaded electric lights, an alcove bedstead, which was a miracle of daintiness, white furniture, and a long low dressing-table littered all over with a multitude of daintily fashioned toilet appliances. Ann Veronica’s experiences of men had been among more stable types—Teddy, who was always absurd; her father, who was always authoritative and sentimental; Manning, who was always Manning. But none ever puts his foot on this boat. She stood face to face with him, and his voice cut across her speech and made her stop abruptly. “Yes, I have heard of him, and I know him by sight,” he admitted. The thought of their faces, and particularly of her aunt’s, as it would meet the fact— disconcerted, unfriendly, condemning, pained—occurred to her again and again. “I want some advice,” said Ann Veronica. She even thought that perhaps she might come to love him, in spite of that faint indefinable flavor of absurdity that pervaded his courtly bearing. All the best novels have been written by women, and yet see how men sneer at the lady novelist still! There’s only one way to get on for a woman, and that is to please men.
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