A crisis had been reached, and she was almost glad it had been reached. \" Michelle said. I know you. CHAPTER XVII. The place to which you went was not the English Embassy, and the whole performance was a fraud. At the sound of the door Ann Veronica uncovered a tearless face, and with one swift movement assumed a conversational attitude. 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. That won’t involve references, as a bank account would—and all that sort of thing. Dim possibilities that she would not seem to look at even to herself gesticulated in the twilight background of her mind. Things were thrown here and there, to be taken up, or again cast aside, as the whim arose; while the broken-backed chairs and crazy table bore the marks of many a conflict. She would just have to show up and hope for the best. On the one hand, she seemed to think plainly and simply, and would talk serenely and freely about topics that most women have been trained either to avoid or conceal; and on the other she was unconscious, or else she had an air of being unconscious—that was the riddle—to all sorts of personal applications that almost any girl or woman, one might have thought, would have made.
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