“I wonder if many people HAVE thought things out?
“Are we all just seizing hold of phrases and obeying moods?
“It wasn’t so with old-fashioned people, they knew right from wrong; they had
a clear-cut, religious faith that seemed to explain everything and give a rule for
everything. It was as if she had grown right past her father into
something older and of infinitely wider outlook, as if he had always been
unsuspectedly a flattened figure, and now she had discovered him from the other
side. The porter instantly made his
appearance, and Sheppard ordered him to take care of the horses. Nobody ever called me John, that I recollect. The Ralphs and Mannings and Fortescues came down upon the raw
inexperience, upon the blinking ignorance of the newcomer; and before her eyes
were fairly open, before she knew what had happened, a new set of guides and
controls, a new set of obligations and responsibilities and limitations, had
replaced the old. "
This she did carefully, but inwardly commenting that he was still in the realm of
strange fancies. “Not a penny—not one penny—and never
darken your doors again!”
Part 4
The next day her aunt came again and expostulated, and was just saying it was
“an unheard-of thing” for a girl to leave her home as Ann Veronica had done,
when her father arrived, and was shown in by the pleasant-faced landlady.
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