All the best novels have been
written by women, and yet see how men sneer at the lady novelist still! There’s
only one way to get on for a woman, and that is to please men. After all, where prayer fails, a
pistol is bound to succeed. ”
Ann Veronica hesitated, and then stood in the open doorway and regarded her
father’s stern presence. She
felt her forehead repeatedly break out in a light sweat. ‘She won’t confide in you? Now, why?’
‘Because that scoundrel Leonardo drummed it into her head that no man was
to be trusted,’ Gerald announced viciously. Immediately beneath her lay
Willesden,—the most charming and secluded village in the neighbourhood of the
metropolis—with its scattered farm-houses, its noble granges, and its old grey
church-tower just peeping above a grove of rook-haunted trees. ’
‘I should do as she says if I were you, Hilary,’ observed Gerald, noting the
fierce determination in the girl’s lovely face. Me—I’m nothing but a country wench, and one who went to the bad. Except that this music we have
been swimming in is divine. Eh bien, you have now
the opportunity. Here you only waste your time.
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