McClintock will have some. Anna was having tea by herself when she entered. I want to be your knight, your servant, your protector, your—I dare scarcely write the word—your husband. ” 174 < 21 > THANKSGIVING She padded softly up the old stairs, exhausted and elated. She went down, flushed and light-hearted, to the Widgetts’ after lunch to make some final arrangements and then, as soon as her aunt had retired to lie down for her usual digestive hour, took the risk of the servants having the enterprise to report her proceedings and carried her bag and hold-all to the garden gate, whence Teddy, in a state of ecstatic service, bore them to the railway station. ‘Have you any more pretty toys like that knife about you?’ ‘The girl’s a regular arsenal,’ Hilary snapped, giving up into his senior’s hand the nasty little weapon he had snatched. All who lived there aspired to be something greater, all who lived there had hope, even the slaves! Oh, Lucia, if you could have seen the Parthenon, or attended the plays at the Athaneum, you would know why I loved it there. They were talking of “Alcide,” as they often did in those days. Even that he sleeps, I must give to him my thanks, for he has been excessively brave for me. Then she would have quiet times, in which she would say to herself, “Now look here! Let me think it all out!” For the first time, it seemed to her, she faced the facts of a woman’s position in the world—the meagre realities of such freedom as it permitted her, the almost unavoidable obligation to some individual man under which she must labor for even a foothold in the world. “Just hope that the ground doesn’t shift and unearth them. ” TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: Typesetting and editing of the original book from which this e-text has been transcribed was inconsistent. . He stepped back further. Whenever you grow impatient with her, remember the folly of her father.
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