Excerpt: ...breath of autumn had already chilled the air-trying to realise that to-day was actually the eve of Penelope's wedding-day. It seemed incredible-even more incredible that Kitty and she should have gone off laughing together to see about some detail of the next day's arrangements which had been overlooked. She was suddenly conscious that if this were the eve of her own marriage with Roger laughter would be far enough away from her. Regarded dispassionately, her decision to marry him because she couldn't marry the ...
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Excerpt: ...breath of autumn had already chilled the air-trying to realise that to-day was actually the eve of Penelope's wedding-day. It seemed incredible-even more incredible that Kitty and she should have gone off laughing together to see about some detail of the next day's arrangements which had been overlooked. She was suddenly conscious that if this were the eve of her own marriage with Roger laughter would be far enough away from her. Regarded dispassionately, her decision to marry him because she couldn't marry the man she loved, seemed rather absurd and illogical. It was like going into a library and, having discovered that the book which you required was out, accepting one you didn't really want instead-just because the librarian, who knew nothing whatever about your tastes in literature, had offered it to you. You always began the substitute hopefully and generally ended up by being thoroughly bored with it and marvelling how on earth anybody could possibly have found it interesting! Nan wondered if she would get bored with her substituted volume. She had rushed recklessly into her engagement, regarding marriage with Roger much as though it were a stout set of palings with "No Right of Way" written across them in large letters. Outside, the waves of emotion might surge in vain, while within, she and Roger would settle down to the humdrum placidity of married life. But the dull, ceaseless ache at her heart made her sometimes question whether anything in the world could keep at bay the insistent claim of love. She tried to reassure herself. At least there would always remain her music and the passionate delight of creative work. It was true she had written nothing recently. She had been living at too high an emotional strain to have any surplus energy for originating, and she knew from experience that all creative work demands both strength and spirit, heart and soul-everything that is in you, if it is to be worth while. These and other...
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