He was not due from the City until about six, and so she went and played Badminton with the Widgett girls until dinner-time. Since morning he had become fanatical; the atoms of common sense no longer functioned in the accustomed groove. Age is set, impervious to innovations. In remote times and countries its evil tendencies had expressed themselves in the form of tyrannies, massacres, wars, and what not; but just at present in England they shaped as commercialism and competition, silk hats, suburban morals, the sweating system, and the subjection of women. . Immediately beneath her lay Willesden,—the most charming and secluded village in the neighbourhood of the metropolis—with its scattered farm-houses, its noble granges, and its old grey church-tower just peeping above a grove of rook-haunted trees. Good-bye. So, instead, they talked of dancing and what it might mean in a human life. Far away there was the one woman for this boy of mine—some human being who would understand the dear fool better than all the rest of the world. She married my Dad in a small ceremony down at City Hall. The key is in my trousers. “That is as you will,” she said. She thought of her aunt and that purse that was dropped on the table, and of many troublesome and ill-requited kindnesses; she thought of the help of the Widgetts, of Teddy’s admiration; she thought, with a new-born charity, of her father, of Manning’s conscientious unselfishness, of Miss Miniver’s devotion. “I wish I understood more of biology,” said Manning. He looked like a French boy soldier she had once glimpsed marching towards his death in one of the battles they would later call the Hundred Years War.
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