“What else can happen?” asked Miss Miniver, with a little weak gesture at the glow. Wood. “I ought to have done anything! “What’s a man for? “Friendship!” He doubled up his fist, and seemed to contemplate thrusting it through the window. Instead, he could not get beyond these minor details—why she wore the dress, whence she had come, and whither she was bound. Her motherly features creased into anxious wrinkles. His tie had demanded a struggle; he ought to have taken a clean one after his first failure. “Her husband was a county councillor, and she has a niece who comes to see her in a carriage. He shall have the estates. Gerald saw her eyes change as she recognised him. About halfway across this interval, when everything seemed going well, Capes had a shock. I tell you—never mind the bill. Wood had the advantage of her husband in point of years, being on the sunny side of forty,—a period pronounced by competent judges to be the most fascinating, and, at the same time, most critical epoch of woman's existence,—whereas, he was on the shady side of fifty,—a term of life not generally conceived to have any special recommendation in female eyes. Then she would have quiet times, in which she would say to herself, “Now look here! Let me think it all out!” For the first time, it seemed to her, she faced the facts of a woman’s position in the world—the meagre realities of such freedom as it permitted her, the almost unavoidable obligation to some individual man under which she must labor for even a foothold in the world.
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