“Miss Pellissier,” he said, “I came here this afternoon hoping particularly to see you for a few moments before you signed that contract. She danced with two others. God only knows what I have done, or left undone. Do you know, Annabel, that you are my wife. Melusine made no reply. “You shall drive home with me in a hansom, if you will. They could no longer stay in one place. Brutes! They are the brute still with us! Science some day may teach us a way to do without them. Listening attentively, he fancied he heard the breathing of some one near him, and moved cautiously in the opposite direction. “And what on earth,” he said, “do you think the world is made of? Why do you think I have been doing things for you? The abstract pleasure of goodness? Are you one of the members of that great white sisterhood that takes and does not give? The good accepting woman! Do you really suppose a girl is entitled to live at free quarters on any man she meets without giving any return?” “I thought,” said Ann Veronica, “you were my friend. Heaven knows why! They don’t marry most of us off now until high up in the twenties. You were very good. I am having them to my own soirée on Monday.
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