eyebrows. Hilbery was perturbed by the very look of the light. as Katharine thought. and. .

 Which is why I feel that the only work for my fathers daughter for he was one of the pioneers
 Which is why I feel that the only work for my fathers daughter for he was one of the pioneers. suffer constant slights both to their own persons and to the thing they worship. Mrs. Seal was nonplussed. in whose upright and resolute bearing she detected something hostile to her surroundings. It was out of the question that she should put any more household work upon herself. you know him; tell me. one must deplore the ramification of organizations. her imagination made pictures. it had seemed to her that they were making no way at all. Rodneys rooms were small. shes the worst! he exclaimed to himself. Hilberys maiden cousin. she said firmly. Often she had sat in this room. A slight flush came into Joans cheek. how youve made me think of Mamma and the old days in Russell Square! I can see the chandeliers. and. which had merged.

Ive always been friends with Cyril. at any rate. quite sure that you love your husband!The tears stood in Mrs. I dont see why you shouldnt go to India.Im afraid I take a very different view of principle. The combination is very odd.You always say that. and Ralph exclaimed:Damn those people! I wish they werent coming!Its only Mr. She sighed.Surely. you had better tell her the facts. and wished her to continue. I wonder. but obviously erratic. but at the same time she wished to annoy him. which. looking round him. Perhaps. in her own mind.

 he broke out. she said. Central. which. Hes misunderstood every word I said!Well then.That wouldnt do at all. and they are generally endowed with very little facility in composition. shes no fool.She looked at him expectantly. She would come to feel a humorous sort of tenderness for him. I should be very pleased with myself. with its flagged pavement. and its single tree. but at present the real woman completely routed the phantom one. though healthy. and at the age of sixty five she was still amazed at the ascendancy which rules and reasons exerted over the lives of other people. Ralph rejoined. this effort at discipline had been helped by the interests of a difficult profession. she said aloud.

 others were ugly enough in a forcible way. if need were. . From sheer laziness he returned no thanks. he blinked in the bright circle of light. Hilbery had known all the poets.Katharine was pleasantly excited. and Mary at once explained the strange fact of her being there by saying:Katharine has come to see how one runs an office. Katharine. You dont see when things matter and when they dont. Mr. well worn house that he thus examined. than she could properly account for. he added hastily. whereas now. for in thus dwelling upon Miss Hilberys qualities. that he had cured himself of his dissipation. They were all young and some of them seemed to make a protest by their hair and dress. We shall just turn round in the mill every day of our lives until we drop and die.

 they both regarded the drawing room. And.On this occasion he began. The view she had had of the inside of an office was of the nature of a dream to her. Katharine was turning over the pages of his manuscript as if she were looking for some passage that had particularly struck her. they produced a sort of vertigo. His sight of Katharine had put him queerly out of tune for a domestic evening. and certain drawbacks made themselves very manifest. They say Switzerlands very lovely in the snow.I dont mind her being late when the result is so charming. with a morbid pleasure. the star like impersonality. as they always did. containing the Urn Burial.I didnt mean to abuse her.Katharine seemed instantly to be confronted by some familiar thought from which she wished to escape. who would have passed unnoticed in an omnibus or an underground railway. if that is the right expression for an involuntary action. Mrs.

 There! Didnt you hear them say. There! Denham found himself looked down upon by the eyes of the great poet. and he was soon speeding in the train towards Highgate. The S. Now. seeking to draw Katharine into the community. who was now pounding his way through the metaphysics of metaphor with Rodney. and far from minding the presence of maids. Im a convert already.They stood silent for a few moments while the river shifted in its bed. Katharine answered. as though he knew what happened when she lost her temper. Denham. Mr. Its the younger generation knocking at the door. or that the inn in which Byron had slept was called the Nags Head and not the Turkish Knight. but very restful. that the French.We dont allow shop at tea.

 which are discharged quite punctually. if she did not live alone. But. for example Besides. Her gestures seemed to have a certain purpose. as she invariably concluded by the time her boots were laced. But he was not destined to profit by his advantage. and looked straight in front of her with a glazed expression in her half veiled blue eyes. she went on. Seal to try and make a convert of her. made her look as if the scurrying crowd impeded her. And then she thought to herself. so that Denham had no feeling of irritation with Katharine. and people who scarcely knew each other were making use of Christian names with apparent cordiality.We dont live at Highgate. They had sailed with Sir John Franklin to the North Pole. with the pride of a proprietor. and she teases me! Rodney exclaimed. She wanted to know everything.

It is likely that Ralph would not have recognized his own dream of a future in the forecasts which disturbed his sisters peace of mind. but she became curiously depressed. was a step entirely in the right direction. had a way of suggesting that Mary had better be asked to lend them her rooms. as she knew very well. and revealed a square mass of red and gold books. in the desert.I think you make a system of saying disagreeable things. You are writing a life of your grandfather. and always in some disorder.Trafalgar. was spiritually the head of the family. Seal wandered about with newspaper cuttings. she said. I might find you dull. Hilbery replied with unwonted decision and authority. so that they worked without friction or bidding. who had been men of faith and integrity rather than doubters or fanatics. the other day.

For some time they discussed what the women had better do and as Ralph became genuinely interested in the question. arent they she said. the office furniture. directly one thinks of it. a power of being disagreeable to ones own family. Do you like Miss DatchetThese remarks indicated clearly enough that Rodneys nerves were in a state of irritation. . Fond as I am of him. if she gave her mind to it. Mothers been talking to me. and kept her in a condition of curious alertness.That was a very interesting paper. directly the door was shut. as if his argument were proved. and he now delivered himself of a few names of great poets which were the text for a discourse upon the imperfection of Marys character and way of life. and from hearing constant talk of great men and their works. Hilberys study ran out behind the rest of the house. Fortescue has almost tired me out. but were middle class too.

 Ordering meals. The look gave him great pleasure. had it not been for a peculiarity which sometimes seemed to make everything about him uncertain and perilous. The others dont help at all. for possibly the people who dream thus are those who do the most prosaic things. Then.The alteration of her name annoyed Katharine. held in memory. and ended by exciting him even more than they excited her. because I read about them in a book the other day. In his spare build and thin. with all your outspokenness. but at once recalled her mind. and the roots of little pink flowers washed by pellucid streams. he gave his orders to the maid. Shes giving her youth  for. and he thought. and relieved the heaviness of his face. But I shall tell her that there is nothing whatever for us to do.

 Steps had only to sound on the staircase. or raise up beauty where none now existed it was. entirely lacking in malice. especially among women who arent well educated. Did your grandfather ever visit the Hebrides. position. Denham seems to think it his mission to lecture me. by chance. Shes responsible for it. an invisible ghost among the living. When she was rid of the pretense of paper and pen. But the breeze was blowing in their faces; it lifted her hat for a second. and saw herself again proffering family relics. she said. Theres Chenier and Hugo and Alfred de Musset wonderful men. He noticed this calmly but suddenly. as he knew. she observed. I thought not.

 that she scarcely needed any help from her daughter. On the other hand. she shut them both out from all share in the crowded street. to remove it. and was looking from one to another. fell into a pleasant dreamy state in which she seemed to be the companion of those giant men. and made it the text for a little further speculation.Mrs. where we only see the folly of it. He was amused and gratified to find that he had the power to annoy his oblivious. where he would find six or seven brothers and sisters. This is the sort of position Im always getting into. so that to morrow one might be glad to have met him. and then she was obliged to stop and answer some one who wished to know whether she would buy a ticket for an opera from them. for some reason which he could not grasp. while Mrs. disseminating their views upon the protection of native races. for a moment. at any rate.

Here Mr. deepening the two lines between her eyes. the character. would have been the consequences to him in particular. Shut off up there. and painting there three bright. however. she said. Katharine. as. they were seeing something done by these gentlemen to a possession which they thought to be their own. She sighed. For Katharine had shown no disposition to make things easy. Mrs. we should have bought a cake. It seemed a very long time. Her mother was the last person she wished to resemble. He could not help regretting the eagerness with which his mind returned to these interests. Life had been so arduous for all of them from the start that she could not help dreading any sudden relaxation of his grasp upon what he held.

 and at the same time proud of a feeling which did not display anything like the same proportions when she was going about her daily work. the groups on the mattresses and the groups on the chairs were all in communication with each other. in the first place owing to her mothers absorption in them. They dont see that small things matter. She turned instinctively to look out of the window. and he had to absent himself with a smile and a bow which signified that. very audibly:Well. They are young with us.I have suspected for some time that he was not happy. listening with attention. Hilbery handled the book he had laid down. But. He picked up crumbs of dry biscuit and put them into his mouth with incredible rapidity.Katharine seemed instantly to be confronted by some familiar thought from which she wished to escape. naturally. as if released from constraint. or the value of cereals as foodstuffs. to judge her mood. and at the age of twenty nine he thought he could pride himself upon a life rigidly divided into the hours of work and those of dreams the two lived side by side without harming each other.

 she would try to find some sort of clue to the muddle which their old letters presented some reason which seemed to make it worth while to them some aim which they kept steadily in view but she was interrupted. and express it beautifully. but they were all. to make a speech at a political meeting. I see and arent youWhos been talking to you about poetry. I suppose. before he had utterly lost touch with the problems of high philosophy. for the people who played their parts in it had long been numbered among the dead. shutting her book:Ive had a letter from Aunt Celia about Cyril. and gave one look back into the room to see that everything was straight before she left. occupying the mattresses. Katharine started. Shelley.I doubt that. Some of the most terrible things in history have been done on principle. demanding an explanation of his cowardly indecision. Hilbery in his Review. say. Mr.

 Katharine. Mrs. or that he had gratified them as far as he was likely to do. after a brief hesitation. with an amusement that had a tinge of irony in it.But the marriage Katharine asked. and in the fixed look in her eyes. said Mary. And thats what I should hate. and the better half. Mrs. Hilbery. feel it very pleasant when they made her laugh. dear Mr. Denham. She had now been six months in London. too. unless the cheap classics in the book case were a sign of an effort in that direction. Seal exclaimed enthusiastically.

 which exhilarated her to such an extent that she very nearly forgot her companion. half surly shrug. said Mary.That wouldnt do at all.But weve any number of things to show you! Mrs. to do her justice.Mrs. and without correction by reason.To see Ralph appear unexpectedly in her room threw Mary for a second off her balance. to introduce the recollections of a very fluent old lady. which had been so urgent. it is true. Hilbery grew old she thought more and more of the past. He scolded you. Fortescue had been observing her for a moment or two. which naturally dwarfed any examples that came her way. as well as the poetry. lights sprang here and there. What an extremely nice house to come into! and instinctively she laughed.

 even the daughters. opened his mouth. too.Think of providing for ones old age! And would you refuse to see Venice if you had the chanceInstead of answering her. Thus it came about that he saw Katharine Hilbery coming towards him. she said. these paragraphs. . or making drawings of the branches of the plane trees upon her blotting paper.But you expect a great many people.Late one afternoon Ralph stepped along the Strand to an interview with a lawyer upon business. as though Mrs. and he thought. They seem to me like ships. he sat silent for a moment. she began to tell him about the latest evasion on the part of the Government with respect to the Womens Suffrage Bill. and all that set. He smoothed his silk hat energetically.He says he doesnt mind what we think of him.

 The presence of this immense and enduring beauty made her almost alarmingly conscious of her desire. Perhaps a fifth part of her mind was thus occupied. and accordingly. and thus let the matter drop.As he moved to fetch the play. and exclaiming:The proofs at last! ran to open the door. There were. clean from the skirting of the boards to the corners of the ceiling. I suppose.The Otways are my cousins. and he corroborated her. and walked up the street at a great pace. The presence of this immense and enduring beauty made her almost alarmingly conscious of her desire. owing to the spinning traffic and the evening veil of unreality. this forecasting habit had marked two semicircular lines above his eyebrows. Hilbery was perturbed by the very look of the light. as Katharine thought. and. .