" "So he is," returned Jack; "but there's no saying how long he may remain so. He was safe, out of the beaten track, at last really comparable to the needle in the haystack. He was content to talk about himself, though in the back of his clever mind he already suspected that she was not offering any details about her life. Passing thought. The life of a girl presented itself to her as something happy and heedless and unthinking, yet really guided and controlled by others, and going on amidst unsuspected screens and concealments. For hours after she had not been sensible to life, only to exquisite echoes. The place was pockmarked with window-like holes everywhere—people were always 138 falling into them and breaking bones--it was for these lookouts why she had chosen it. 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. She did not know herself. She stepped on to the pavement almost before him, and his blood turned almost to ice as he saw that she was not alone. If he escapes at all, it must be before our faces. ’ ‘So I see. ‘Are you going to come quietly, mademoiselle?’ he demanded with grim determination. ‘And she’s—’ She broke off, a sudden light in her eyes.
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