[The Odd Women by George Gissing]@TWC D-Link bookThe Odd Women CHAPTER VII 20/50
It was written in very small characters--perhaps an unpurposed indication of the misgiving with which she allowed herself to pen the words. Two days went by, and again a letter from Widdowson was delivered, 'DEAR MISS MADDEN--My chief purpose in writing again so soon is to apologize sincerely for my behaviour on Tuesday evening.
It was quite unjustifiable.
The best way of confessing my fault is to own that I had a foolish dislike of your walking in the streets unaccompanied at so late an hour.
I believe that any man who had newly made your acquaintance, and had thought as much about you as I have, would have experienced the same feeling.
The life which made it impossible for you to see friends at any other time of the day was so evidently unsuited to one of your refinement that I was made angry by the thought of it. Happily it is coming to an end, and I shall be greatly relieved when I know that you have left the house of business. 'You remember that we are to be friends.
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