I can't concentrate on my work. “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. Never before had any human being kissed her lips. She even thought that perhaps she might come to love him, in spite of that faint indefinable flavor of absurdity that pervaded his courtly bearing. “I wonder,” said Ann Veronica at last, “if I am beautiful? I wonder if I shall ever shine like a light, like a translucent goddess?— “I wonder— “I suppose girls and women have prayed for this, have come to this—In Babylon, in Nineveh. The destroying angel hurried by, shrouded in his gloomiest apparel. The hardest bout I ever had was with a woman—Sally Wells, who was afterwards lagged for shoplifting. Miss Mary to the life. Then she went into the office. She’s hated me for no apparent reason ever since Fourth Grade. She battled with a deadly faintness, and she tottered rather than walked back to her seat. It is simply our point of view which is altogether different. Let me go my own way towards them. To get behind that impenetrable curtain, to learn why she hated her island.
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