“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. No one is safe. “He is one of our guests—perhaps I should say boarders here, but he seldom returns before dinner-time. Most of my people are upstairs dressing for dinner. He had heard me sing—the fool thought himself in love with me. ‘Prudence? This name I have heard it spoken. You can live just about how you like. . ’ ‘Ah, that was an affair altogether different,’ she explained and fluttered her long lashes at him. He screamed in pain, doubling over with a howl as she stumbled out of the bed. She trailed him to his apartment and a black door that read 727 in solemn gold-tone lettering. May I be permitted, as a very old and very dear friend of your lamented parent, whose loss I shall ever deplore, to ask you one question?" "Undoubtedly," replied Winifred. She would then hear his feet pounding up the steps and he would burst into whatever room she was sitting in and say, “There she is! My wife! Hiding her beauty from the world!” He would then run to her, grab her book or embroidery and unceremoniously toss them to the floor. We leave this room together.
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