“Now listen. This key," he added, taking it from the boy, "was purloined from me by your father, Jack. He wanted to become a millionaire. Inside was Anna, leaning a little forward to watch the passers-by, bright-eyed, full to the brim of the insatiable curiosity of youth—the desire to understand and appreciate this new world in which she found herself. With what airs we human atoms invest ourselves! What ridiculous fancies of our importance! We believe we have destinies, when we have only destinations: that we are something immortal, when each of us is in truth only the repository of a dream. What can she be? The wife of a country tradesman, or a duchess? And such a meek little husband too. This threat terrified Ann Veronica so much that she declared with sobs and vehemence that she would never come home again, and for a time both talked at once and very wildly. He too was flushed and ruffled; one side of his collar had slipped from its stud and he held a hand to the corner of his jaw. \"Shhh! He rolled onto his back again, raising himself in alarm. 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.
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