16/23 Isn't the young green beautiful? Good morning--good morning--you'll come and see me ?--thank you so much--next week--yes--good-bye, g-o-o-d b-y-e.' Gudrun and Ursula stood and watched her slowly waving her head up and down, and waving her hand slowly in dismissal, smiling a strange affected smile, making a tall queer, frightening figure, with her heavy fair hair slipping to her eyes. Then they moved off, as if they had been dismissed like inferiors. The four women parted. 'Why ?' 'The way she treats one--impudence!' 'Why, Ursula, what did you notice that was so impudent ?' asked Gudrun rather coldly. |