She patted John's
head with her palm, its surface appealingly fuzzy. You know all this stuff is insured. Be a good wife to
him. He was full of fabulous stories, not just
tales of his own past in Rome but wonderful fables from
the mysterious Orient and the ancient Greeks, old jokes
and yarns that only he remembered. It is foolish, she murmured to
herself, foolish. Far
away there was the one woman for this boy of mine—some human being who
would understand the dear fool better than all the rest of the world. In
remote times and countries its evil tendencies had expressed themselves in the
form of tyrannies, massacres, wars, and what not; but just at present in England
they shaped as commercialism and competition, silk hats, suburban morals, the
sweating system, and the subjection of women. ”
He hesitated, and went off at a tangent. On the fifth day he had ventured speech with her. “But it makes me feel inhuman,” he added. “Etherialized monkey,” she said. And
the woman who showed this room was tall, with an understanding eye and the
quiet manner of the well-trained servant. She struggled not to
be afraid. This getting up at dawn—real dawn—and working until seven was a distinct
novelty.
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