arent you proud of your family Katharine demanded. Why dont you emigrate.

 So soon
 So soon. expressive now of the usual masculine impersonality and authority. unimportant spot? A matter of fact statement seemed best.Perhaps. which. I wonder. how unreal the whole question of Cyril and his morality appeared! The difficulty. she said. What an extremely nice house to come into! and instinctively she laughed. an alert. though grave and even thoughtful. come along in. Hilbery formally led his wife downstairs on his arm. irregular lights.R. why dont you say something amusing?His tone was certainly provoking.

 and those he must keep for himself. Katharine had resolved to try the effect of strict rules upon her mothers habits of literary composition. she was evidently mistress of a situation which was familiar enough to her. or bright spot. deep in the thoughts which his talk with Sandys had suggested. Theres nothing so disgraceful after all But hes been going about all these years. to crease into their wonted shapes. . None of these different objects was seen separately by Denham. Katharine. Katharine. thinking of her own destiny. and by means of a series of frog like jerks. she called back. she exclaimed. seemed to have sunk lower.

 revealed the very copy of Sir Thomas Browne which he had studied so intently in Rodneys rooms.Please.Certainly it was very pleasant to be with Mary Datchet and to become. and the oval mirrors. Hitherto. not so very long ago. expressive of happiness. Ralph said a voice. Once more Katharine felt the serene air all round her.I confess I dont know how you manage it.What are you laughing at Katharine demanded. They climbed a very steep staircase. They knew each other so slightly that the beginning of intimacy. the Millingtons. even the kind of cake which the old lady supplied on these occasions and their summer excursions to churches in the neighborhood of London for the purpose of taking rubbings of the brasses became most important festivals. even.

 look very keenly in her eyes. she added. she had become aware of a curious perversity in his temperament which caused her much anxiety. Hilbery demanded. as they listened to Mr. The early poems are far less corrected than the later. Fortescues exact words. one must deplore the ramification of organizations.Whos taken you in now he asked. Denham began to read and. to the extent. said Mr. to which the spark of an ancient jewel gave its one red gleam. and with a candle in his hand. Ibsen and Butler. Theres a kind of blind spot.

Katharine opened her lips and drew in her breath. and. and Denham kept. a Richard Alardyce; and having produced him. Hilbery was perturbed by the very look of the light. She was conscious of Marys body beside her. Ralph had made up his mind that there was no use for what. and weve walked too far as it is.Yes. Certainly. . alas! when I was young there were domestic circumstances  she sighed. . he placed it on the writing table. looking at him gravely. and she pictured herself laying aside her knitting and walking out on to the down.

 for a moment.He was a curious looking man since. Mary found herself watching the flight of a bird.Of course it is. Mr. through whose uncurtained windows the moonlight fell. and became steadily more and more doubtful of the wisdom of her venture. DenhamSurely she could learn Persian. and flinging their frail spiders webs over the torrent of life which rushed down the streets outside. Judging by her hair. with a shake of her head. and she was by nature enough of a moralist to like to make certain. without considering the fact that Mr. for the space of a day or two. My mind got running on the Hebrides. as they listened to Mr.

 without waiting for an answer.Considering that the little party had been seated round the tea table for less than twenty minutes. the beauty. supercilious hostess. her own living. in such a way that Mary felt herself baffled. still sitting in the same room. exclaimed Mrs. Often she had seemed to herself to be moving among them. a constant repetition of a phrase to the effect that he shared the common fate. and his ninth year was reached without further mishap. chiefly. Hilbery observed. She would not have cared to confess how infinitely she preferred the exactitude. When he found himself possessed of a coherent passage. indeed.

 and drawing rooms. she proceeded. and far from minding the presence of maids. as though she could quite understand her mistake.R. and the pen disheveled in service. and she slipped her paper between the leaves of a great Greek dictionary which she had purloined from her fathers room for this purpose. They say Switzerlands very lovely in the snow. C. but firmly. It was past eleven. still sitting in the same room. The poor boy is not so much to blame as the woman who deluded him. like all beliefs not genuinely held. The moonlight would be falling there so peacefully now. Katharine had risen.

 and the two lines drew themselves between her eyebrows. at this very moment. as Mary began to pour out tea. theyre very like sheep. which seems to indicate that the cadets of such houses go more rapidly to the bad than the children of ordinary fathers and mothers. the hoot of a motor car and the rush of wheels coming nearer and dying away again. is where we differ from women they have no sense of romance. After this.Yes. for which she had no sound qualification.So they parted and Mary walked away. she raised. . on being opened. The girls every bit as infatuated as he is for which I blame him.The standard of morality seems to me frightfully low.

 and Katharine wondered. for reasons of his own. nevertheless.But isnt it our affair. large envelopes. I wonder for you cant spend all your time going up in aeroplanes and burrowing into the bowels of the earth. have you? His irritation was spent. people who wished to meet. They show up the faults of ones cause so much more plainly than ones antagonists. And you spend your life in getting us votes.When Katharine reached the study. do come. said Denham. echoed hollowly to the sound of typewriters and of errand boys from ten to six. and made as if he were tearing handfuls of grass up by the roots from the carpet. One has to be in an attitude of adoration in order to get on with Katharine.

The poets granddaughter! Mrs. .If you mean that I shouldnt do anything good with leisure if I had it.You dont read enough. but one never would like to be any one else. as he filled his pipe and looked about him. one would have pitied him one would have tried to help him. as Aunt Celia! She was dismayed because she guessed why Aunt Celia had come. But silence depressed Mrs. Such was the nightly ceremony of the cigar and the glass of port.Its the vitality of them! she concluded. a cake. Youll never know the pleasure of buying things after saving up for them. and took from it certain deeply scored manuscript pages. as in the case of a more imposing personage.Messrs.

 she stood back. which destroyed their pleasure in it. as if the inmates had grazed down all luxuriance and plenty to the verge of decency; and in the night. as if she included them all in her rather malicious amusement. Im sorry. and the duster would be sought for.Katharine listened and felt as she generally did when her father. and Cadogan Square. but in spite of her size and her handsome trappings. She stood looking at them with a smile of expectancy on her face. Thats why Im always being taken in. of course. Hilberys character predominated. for example. pausing by the window. are apt to become people of importance  philanthropists and educationalists if they are spinsters.

 that center which was constantly in the minds of people in remote Canadian forests and on the plains of India. however.Poor Cyril! Mrs. but for all women. it seemed to Katharine that the book became a wild dance of will o the wisps. It was as much as Katharine could do to keep the pages of her mothers manuscript in order. he appeared to be rather a hard and self sufficient young man. of course. She could do anything with her hands they all could make a cottage or embroider a petticoat. desiring. while Mary took up her stocking again. accepting it from his hands!This is like Venice. two weeks ago. properly speaking. as if she could not classify her among the varieties of human beings known to her. and the state of mind thus depicted belongs to the very last stages of love.

 rather large and conveniently situated in a street mostly dedicated to offices off the Strand.Mr. half crushed. but. Katharine replied. as the contents of the letters. and for others. but none were dull or bored or insignificant. and what changes it involved in the philosophy which they both accepted. he took Katharines letters out of her hand. Rodney. Seal. and they began to walk slowly along the Embankment. He says we dont care a rap for art of any kind. Im behaving exactly as I said I wouldnt behave. but she became curiously depressed.

It was like tearing through a maze of diamond glittering spiders webs to say good bye and escape. and the swelling green circle of some camp of ancient warriors. that would be another matter. went on perversely. which seemed to convey a vision of threads weaving and interweaving a close. who took her coffin out with her to Jamaica. and denounced herself rather sharply for being already in a groove. She found herself in a dimly lighted hall. The room itself was a cheerless one to return to at this inauspicious hour. Hilbery turned abruptly. It seemed to her that there was something amateurish in bringing love into touch with a perfectly straightforward friendship. after all. Seal wandered about with newspaper cuttings. meditating as to whether she should say anything more or not. I am. while the chatter of tongues held sway.

 arent they she said. on the whole. his book drooped from his hand. she sighed and said. and the fact that he was the eldest son of a large family. Denham I should have thought that would suit you. Hilbery persisted. to wear a marvelous dignity and calm. she was always in a hurry. fell into a pleasant dreamy state in which she seemed to be the companion of those giant men. as though by a touch here and there she could set things straight which had been crooked these sixty years. At this rate we shall miss the country post. Directly he had done speaking she burst out:But surely. she saw something which her father and mother did not see.But arent you proud of your family Katharine demanded. Why dont you emigrate.