’ Chapter Six Creeping along the dark narrow passage, with lantern held well ahead to keep her step steady on the uneven stones—and to warn her of the advent of rats— Melusine kept her long petticoats fastidiously clear of the dirt with an efficient hand, a habit she had learned in the convent. She bolted awake in the large bed which was awash in a sea of silks, furs, and red curtains. Besides these there was a warm gooseberry-tart, and a cold pigeon pie—the latter capacious enough, even allowing for its due complement of steak, to contain the whole produce of a dovecot; a couple of lobsters and the best part of a salmon swimming in a sea of vinegar, and shaded by a forest of fennel. She had never felt so acutely the desire for free initiative, for a life unhampered by others. “I’m not that beautiful. "My coat!" he repeated, his glance burning into hers. Only last night she saw me, and there was horror in her eyes. That shining slope of snow, and how we talked of death! We might have died! Even when we are old, when we are rich as we may be, we won’t forget the tune when we cared nothing for anything but the joy of one another, when we risked everything for one another, when all the wrappings and coverings seemed to have fallen from life and left it light and fire. Hitherto it had been qualified by her conception of all life as a compromise, by her new effort to be unexacting of life. Here again the clothes were minus the labels. I hid because there was no other way of seeing you. The poor boy, wanting his empty coat! The incident, however, caused her to review the recent events. On the one hand, she seemed to think plainly and simply, and would talk serenely and freely about topics that most women have been trained either to avoid or conceal; and on the other she was unconscious, or else she had an air of being unconscious—that was the riddle—to all sorts of personal applications that almost any girl or woman, one might have thought, would have made. “Confound sex from first to last!” said Ann Veronica.
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