She shook her head. In her case the barrier was not selfishness but the perception that her interest would be misinterpreted, naturally. One point was that she was to wear fancy dress in the likeness of a Corsair’s bride, and the other was that she was to spend whatever vestiges of the night remained after the dance was over in London with the Widgett girls and a select party in “quite a decent little hotel” near Fitzroy Square. It seemed to her the last desperate attack upon the universe that would not let her live as she desired to live, that penned her in and controlled her and directed her and disapproved of her, the same invincible wrappering, the same leaden tyranny of a universe that she had vowed to overcome after that memorable conflict with her father at Morningside Park. Left alone, Jonathan lighted a lamp, and, opening the trap-door, descended the secret stairs. She thought of the smiles she would gather when she brought forth his first grandson. Shari’s married and got two kids on her, a boy and a girl, twins, no less. She had asked about that already, and her father had replied, evasively: “We’ll have to see about that, little Vee; we’ll have to see about that. Was there anything at all in those locked rooms of her aunt’s mind? Were they fully furnished and only a little dusty and cobwebby and in need of an airing, or were they stark vacancy except, perhaps, for a cockroach or so or the gnawing of a rat? What was the mental equivalent of a rat’s gnawing? The image was going astray. On his return to London, he found that applications had been made from a somewhat doubtful quarter by two individuals, for the posts of subordinate officers in his troop. “She wasn’t sane, my wife. “Another young woman, I suppose,” he said, “who knows better than her Maker about her place in the world. "Relating to the father of the boy—Thames Darrell," supplied Jonathan. A little table covered with a damask cloth was dragged out.
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