CHAPTER XIX. ’ Melusine did not reply. ‘Champion?’ ‘The lad you saw following her. To her satisfaction, the captain reddened a trifle. “You must play for us again sometime. ” “Well”—her breath failed her for a moment. “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. It was not the arrival of the guests, but merely the maid moving about in the hall. Will you find your destiny, I wonder, or will you go through life like so many others—a wanderer, knocking ever at empty doors, homeless to the last? Oh, if one could but find the way to your heart. Lady Lescelles, graceful, very fashionably but quietly dressed, leaned back and watched her with shrewd kindly eyes.
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