Turning, she heaved at the bottom door and slammed it in his face just as he came leaping forward to grab her. Every care had been taken of it, as well as of himself, by the humane inmates of the house in which he had sought shelter. Men and women are not established things; they’re experiments, all of them. “There are some people,” he said at last, “who seem fated to carry on their shoulders the burdens of other people. She was never able to trace the changes her attitude had undergone, from the time when she believed herself to be the pampered Queen of Fortune, the crown of a good man’s love (and secretly, but nobly, worshipping some one else), to the time when she realized she was in fact just a mannequin for her lover’s imagination, and that he cared no more for the realities of her being, for the things she felt and desired, for the passions and dreams that might move her, than a child cares for the sawdust in its doll. “It is very nice of you to come, but I do not think for the present, at any rate, I could give him any other answer. She got into rows through meddling with their shoes and tennis-rackets, and had moments of carefully concealed admiration when she was privileged to see them just before her bedtime, rather radiantly dressed in white or pink or amber and prepared to go out with her mother. The little old lady struck like a projectile upon the resounding chest of the foremost of these, and then Ann Veronica had got past and was ascending the steps. She tied the obi clumsily about her waist, then gently laid her hand on the bowed head.
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