She had never expected John capable of saying such things, of thinking such macabre ideas. His body had been maimed many times. Then came the javelin-men, walking four abreast, and lastly, a long line of constables, marching in the same order. She suspected that he would take a mistress just as soon as they returned to Florence. But though she lied about pretty much everything else, she didn’t lie about that. Until this instant, he discovered, he had thought of Melusine’s plan only in a nebulous fashion, a naïve girl’s dream. ‘She’s wearing a lightskirt’s clothing?’ ‘Nothing obviously so, I assure you. Mere hangers on. A single false step might have precipitated him into the street; or, if he had trodden upon an unsound part of the roof, he must have fallen through it. The elastic spirits of youth resumed their sway; and, before the coach stopped, his tears had ceased to flow. She became more and more alive, not so much to a system of ideas as to a big diffused impulse toward change, to a great discontent with and criticism of life as it is lived, to a clamorous confusion of ideas for reconstruction—reconstruction of the methods of business, of economic development, of the rules of property, of the status of children, of the clothing and feeding and teaching of every one; she developed a quite exaggerated consciousness of a multitude of people going about the swarming spaces of London with their minds full, their talk and gestures full, their very clothing charged with the suggestion of the urgency of this pervasive project of alteration.
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