When she awoke from a pleasant dream an hour later, she was shocked to find herself restrained in a bed that was not hers and not the inn’s. “The dawn!” said Miss Miniver, with her glasses reflecting the fire like pools of blood-red flame. ’ ‘Don’t tell me,’ exploded his second-in-command. “You are absurd,” she declared. And―and he wanted to help you. ’ ‘You need not be a nun,’ he said, leaning towards her. Besides, I don't think he's going to ask, if that is what you are getting at. Capes had altered scarcely at all during the interval, except for a new quality of smartness in the cut of his clothes, but Ann Veronica was nearly half an inch taller; her face was at once stronger and softer, her neck firmer and rounder, and her carriage definitely more womanly than it had been in the days of her rebellion. It seemed an emblem of the ruin he had caused. Even an unlikely episode such as this could not be ignored. She got pregnant. The perspiration stood out upon his forehead. Strange gurgle-like noises emanated from the crypt. “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. Oh, you cannot escape from it.
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