“Why should women be dependent on men?” she asked; and the question was at once converted into a system of variations upon the theme of “Why are things as they are?”—“Why are human beings viviparous?”—“Why are people hungry thrice a day?”—“Why does one faint at danger?” She stood for a time looking at the dry limbs and still human face of that desiccated unwrapped mummy from the very beginnings of social life. ’ ‘What is all this about your proof?’ demanded Roding, diverted. I am an independent sort of person,” she continued, “and I am engaged in an attempt to earn my own living. Let’s go up to my room. Emerging from this aperture, he was about to descend, when he was alarmed by hearing the tramp of horses' feet swiftly approaching, and had only time to hide himself behind one of the largest signboards before alluded to when two horsemen rode up. “I can’t help saying it,” she said, with the quality of her voice altering, “but I do NOT think it is right for an unprotected girl to be in London alone as you are. "We have had a sad loss, my dear Winifred," he began,—"for I must use the privilege of an old friend, and address you by that familiar name,—we have had a sad loss in the death of your lamented parent, whose memory I shall for ever revere. “I mean REALLY independent. ’ Was there a careful note in her voice? Gerald gave no sign, keeping his own tone light. You've got me interested and curious. He was content to talk about himself, though in the back of his clever mind he already suspected that she was not offering any details about her life. He flung open the door and cast a quick glance round. The gentleman catched him i' th' fact, and we shut him up for safety i' that pris'n.
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