‘That is not your affair. I knew it. ’ Mischief overtook Melusine. ‘Don’t fob me off, boy. “Let us go to that little place at the back of the Palace. We will beg our bread and our shelter, and our passage on a boat. You lack only that mechanical knack of expression which is the least important part of an artist’s equipment, but which remains a tedious and absolute necessity. She was thinking fast now, all her senses on the alert. I felt I MUST do something anyhow, and up I came just as soon as I could to see you. And not only so, but that it was after all, a more systematic and particular method of examining just the same questions that underlay the discussions of the Fabian Society, the talk of the West Central Arts Club, the chatter of the studios and the deep, the bottomless discussions of the simple-life homes. After all, she found herself reflecting, behind her aunt’s complacent visage there was a past as lurid as any one’s—not, of course, her aunt’s own personal past, which was apparently just that curate and almost incredibly jejune, but an ancestral past with all sorts of scandalous things in it: fire and slaughterings, exogamy, marriage by capture, corroborees, cannibalism! Ancestresses with perhaps dim anticipatory likenesses to her aunt, their hair less neatly done, no doubt, their manners and gestures as yet undisciplined, but still ancestresses in the direct line, must have danced through a brief and stirring life in the woady buff. That is easy. He, for his part, was trying to grasp the series of unexpected reactions that had so wrecked their tete-a-tete. If I can’t talk anywhere else—I DO want an understanding.
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