The forgiveness and reconciliation was a cold and formal affair, and afterwards her father went off gloomily to his study, and Mr. Ann Veronica readjusted her chin on her hand. The burning topic of the Mendelian controversy was approached on one or two occasions, but avoided dexterously; and they talked chiefly of letters and art and the censorship of the English stage. “Why should women be dependent on men?” she asked; and the question was at once converted into a system of variations upon the theme of “Why are things as they are?”—“Why are human beings viviparous?”—“Why are people hungry thrice a day?”—“Why does one faint at danger?” She stood for a time looking at the dry limbs and still human face of that desiccated unwrapped mummy from the very beginnings of social life. “Can you spare me forty pounds?” she said. Wild is sure to be up. Manning. You’re the only person I’ve really given good, straight, unselfish thought to. Ann Veronica was not ready enough to deal with that counter-stroke. Nothing is wrong that you do.
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