There was a pleasant numbness in the bottle; that's why I
went to it. ’
‘But it was not your fault,’ protested Gosse, shocked. “John,” she said, “I am afraid that I am going to make you unhappy. Love!”
He held her arm and abandoned it again at her quick defensive movement. She didn’t like the shops, she didn’t
like the other women’s faces; she thought the smirking men in frock-coats who
dominated these establishments the most intolerable persons she had ever had to
face. If you know
her for the vicious, scheming wretch that she is, why in God’s name—?’
‘She’s not a vicious, scheming wretch,’ Gerald said calmly. She
had imagined that prisons were white-tiled places, reeking of lime-wash and
immaculately sanitary. “Had he better have a nurse? I will be responsible
for anything of that sort. Marry,
come up! I'll see who's to be obeyed. It was a second reminder that against her claim to go free and untrammelled
there was a case to be made, that after all it was true that a girl does not go alone
in the world unchallenged, nor ever has gone freely alone in the world, that evil
walks abroad and dangers, and petty insults more irritating than dangers, lurk. "Oh! if I had known this," he exclaimed, "what guilt, what remorse might have
been spared me!"
"Repentance comes too late when the deed's done," returned Wild, bitterly. You are wholly in my power.
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