She stuffed her violin in its case and rushed into the hallway towards John, who stood outside of 118 with his arms crossed. Wood had prevented him from paying much attention to the previous scene. ’ ‘Now why didn’t I make that connection?’ Gerald asked of the air in a tone of regret. Ann Veronica found herself incompetent, undignified, and detestable, holding on desperately to a hardening antagonism to her father, quarrelling with him, wrangling with him, thinking of repartees—almost as if he was a brother. ‘You didn’t understand it any better than I. We do not remember to have met with a single individual, reported to be under petticoat government, who was not content with his lot,—nay, who so far from repining, did not exult in his servitude; and we see no way of accounting for this apparently inexplicable conduct—for which, among other phenomena of married life, various reasons have been assigned, though none entirely satisfactory to us—except upon the ground that these domineering dames possess some charm sufficiently strong to counteract the irritating effect of their tempers; some secret and attractive quality of which the world at large is in ignorance, and with which their husbands alone can be supposed to be acquainted. She drifted back into the welcoming arms of sleep, feeling herself surrounded in silk. Beauty has bloomed and faded. I have brought disgrace upon you, and I haven’t been the right sort of wife at all. The ambitions of his life, and they were many, seemed to lie far away, broken up dreams in some outside world where the way was rough and the sky always grey. “MY DEAR VERONICA,—Your aunt tells me you have involved yourself in some arrangement with the Widgett girls about a Fancy Dress Ball in London.
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