CHAPTER VI. One married as he wished and one against his wishes, and now here was Ann Veronica, his little Vee, discontented with her beautiful, safe, and sheltering home, going about with hatless friends to Socialist meetings and art-class dances, and displaying a disposition to carry her scientific ambitions to unwomanly lengths. "Your assistants are in my power. . “This life is killing me! Oh, it is dull, dull, dull!” Suddenly an idea seemed to strike her. The walls were bare, and painted in stone-colour; the floors, devoid of carpet; the beds, of hangings; the windows, of blinds; and, excepting in the thief-taker's own audience-chamber, there was not a chair or a table about the premises; the place of these conveniences being elsewhere supplied by benches, and deal-boards laid across joint-stools. " And then he added, in an under tone, "Conceal yourself outside, and be within call. Anyhow, now you’ve begun it, there’s nothing to keep us in all this from being the best friends in the world. She packed her things, then ran a mile to Julian’s apartment. That terrible laughter, just before his senses had left him! Why? Here was a word that volleyed at her from all directions, numbed and bewildered her: the multiple echoes of her own first utterance of the word. She had now the clear and tranquil expression of one whose mind is made up. 70 <9> A MARRIAGE, PART II She dreamt of the inn they had stopped at after her suicide attempt, the flea-ridden hostel her husband had angrily toted her to after the incident at the country house. She went into premature labor.
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