“You’ve grown out of them. But the people among whom she was now thrown through the
social exertions of Miss Miniver and the Widgetts—for Teddy and Hetty came
up from Morningside Park and took her to an eighteen-penny dinner in Soho and
introduced her to some art students, who were also Socialists, and so opened the
way to an evening of meandering talk in a studio—carried with them like an
atmosphere this implication, not only that the world was in some stupid and even
obvious way WRONG, with which indeed she was quite prepared to agree, but
that it needed only a few pioneers to behave as such and be thoroughly and
indiscriminately “advanced,” for the new order to achieve itself. So, here he was, on the last lap of
middle age, in China, having missed all the thrills in life except one—the war
against Death. And, if I'd my own way with the Secretary of State, he never should. ’
He paused, but Melusine caught the inference. But no matter how you phrase it, the end is the same. Oh, the
scent of the flowers that day, the delicious quiet, the swallows that dived before
us in the river. ”
He paused, with his eyes studying her gravely. ”
The man contented himself with a nod.
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