. “I’ve broken off my engagement,” she said, in a matter-of-fact tone, and found her heart thumping in her neck. Not even, it seemed, this interfering monsieur le major. She was a woman now to the tips of her fingers; she had said good-bye to her girlhood in the old garden four years and a quarter ago. He could not tell whether she was English or American. Now she was to be married to him and it horrified her. I thought if you were living, and not captured, I should find you here,—and I was right. “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. ‘Comment? You have then met this Suzanne?’ The woman turned a deep red. She happened to have an acute sense of form and unusual mental lucidity, and she found in biology, and particularly in comparative anatomy, a very considerable interest, albeit the illumination it cast upon her personal life was not altogether direct.
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