Something changed for her. ‘You ought to be glad someone cares enough about your wretched little neck to try and save it. . She kissed his neck and licked him there. Unwillingly he drew a little nearer, and became one of the group of loiterers about the entrance. So she took up Stevenson and began to read aloud. 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. Here was a thundering blow. ’ Melusine fought down the raw emotion that threatened to overwhelm her and drew a steadying breath. Satisfied he was immobilised for the moment, Melusine fell to her knees beside Jack, dragging at his suddenly heavy body to turn it on its back. But what he could do or might do she could not imagine. He had meant to be master of his fate that evening and it had escaped him altogether.
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