She was saying good-bye to childhood and home, and her making; she was going out into the great, multitudinous world; this time there would be no returning. Neither your aunt nor I have any other thought but what is best for you. You won't refuse me, I'm sure; so no more need be said about the matter. The wine was sweetened with cinnamon and cloves and rare edible flowers, which her father had instructed her not to drink excessively of. She was still more stirred by the idea of the equal citizenship of men and women, by the realization that a big and growing organization of women were giving form and a generalized expression to just that personal pride, that aspiration for personal freedom and respect which had brought her to London; but when she heard Miss Miniver discoursing on the next step in the suffrage campaign, or read of women badgering Cabinet Ministers, padlocked to railings, or getting up in a public meeting to pipe out a demand for votes and be carried out kicking and screaming, her soul revolted. “Call it warning, if you like. ‘Where is there that I can go?’ All at once Alderley felt acutely suspicious. They were sure to catch up with her. “Really, I do not know why I should have doubted it. “Why are you so distant? Why all the mystery? What are you, a narc? Double-oh-seven or something?” She steeled herself, refusing to react. I have suffered all this. I have no intention of allowing you to depart in a hurry. In Europe or in America people would have smiled; but in Singapore—the half-way port of the world—where a human kaleidoscope tumbles continuously east and west, no one had remarked her. Far away there was the one woman for this boy of mine—some human being who would understand the dear fool better than all the rest of the world.
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