Had she expected to wed Valade herself? Had the fellow broken a vow of betrothal, or abandoned her? He must find out more. He stood on the top step for a moment, lost in deep thought. ’ ‘You certain? She’s a thought too volatile for my money. I love to research, not just for school. Every home is a little recess, a niche, out of the world of business and competition, in which women and the future shelter. Impressionable, lonely, a deal beyond his analytical reach, the girl might let her sympathies go beyond those of the nurse. So I come round the other way and—Lordy, miss, I’m that sorry I made a mull of it. And yet, often when alone, he wondered: had McClintock been wrong, or had she ceased to care in that way? The possibility that she no longer cared should have filled him with unalloyed happiness, whereas it depressed him, cut the natural vanity of youth into shreds and tatters. They seed beyond all reason. That’s— that’s my private life. ’ ‘Oh, yes I do,’ Martha said, getting up off the bed. She saw her life before her robbed of all generous illusions, the wrappered life unwrappered forever, vistas of dull responses, crises of makebelieve, years of exacting mutual disregard in a misty garden of fine sentiments. She let her mind run into dreams of that cloud paradise of an altered world in which the Goopes and Minivers, the Fabians and reforming people believed. She remembered the doctor's warning that the real battle would begin when the patient recovered consciousness. He turned, expecting to see his wife.
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