‘But then again, possibly not. “Did you—did you really think that they would take you for a Frenchman?” she exclaimed. He must have been following her from room to room, silent in his stockinged feet. All about her, hither and yon, lay the enticing Unknown. Away in London even now Capes was packing and preparing; Capes, the magic man whose touch turned one to trembling fire. It was an awful moment—so awful, that every other feeling except deep interest in the scene seemed suspended. “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. It’s an engagement ring. And when she took and married that Mr Charvill, we didn’t think to see her at Remenham House no more. ’ He bowed slightly, and indicated the house behind them with a wave of his hand. ’ ‘I imagine it must be a relief to you, after so lucky an escape.
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