She crept out of the shadows. But over against the world Miss Miniver assembled a small but energetic minority, the Children of Light—people she described as “being in the van,” or “altogether in the van,” about whom Ann Veronica’s mind was disposed to be more sceptical. ‘That is not your affair. Why should some things and not others open the deeps?” “Well, that might, after all, be an outcome of selection—like the preference for blue flowers, which are not nearly so bright as yellow, of some insects. He sounds to me like a soldier of fortune. He was the true optimist; and that he should proceed, serenely unconscious of reefs and storms, she accepted the double buffets. When they reached her rooms she stepped lightly out upon the pavement. 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. As she drew off her skirt she felt something in the pocket, and remembered the letter which the commissionaire at the Carlton had given her. The cart, meantime, had approached the fatal tree. That place was closed by the police last month. “I’ll go.
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