Part 7 Then one day a little thing happened that clothed itself in significance. But the people among whom she was now thrown through the social exertions of Miss Miniver and the Widgetts—for Teddy and Hetty came up from Morningside Park and took her to an eighteen-penny dinner in Soho and introduced her to some art students, who were also Socialists, and so opened the way to an evening of meandering talk in a studio—carried with them like an atmosphere this implication, not only that the world was in some stupid and even obvious way WRONG, with which indeed she was quite prepared to agree, but that it needed only a few pioneers to behave as such and be thoroughly and indiscriminately “advanced,” for the new order to achieve itself. If the Wastrel had not turned the instant he did, the ball would have missed him; as it was he turned directly into its path. She tested the limits to see how far 79 she could go, often running away for the day, causing him to fret and pace. He saw her, dripping with rosy pearls, rise out of the lagoon in the dawn light: he saw her flashing to and fro among the coco palms in the moonshine: he saw her breasting the hurricane, her body as full of grace and beauty as the Winged Victory of the Louvre. Perhaps an hour passed before she laid aside the book. I told you no good would come of it. ’ ‘I am relieved to hear it. " "Not utterly," rejoined the other. " But Thames was not to be deterred from his purpose; and the strife might have terminated seriously, if a peace-maker had not appeared in the shape of little Winifred, who, alarmed by the noise, rushed suddenly into the room. She wondered what the problem was, why the buildup? She wanted to go to his apartment that evening but stayed herself. " "I can't exactly say, Sir Rowland.
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