[Night and Day by Virginia Woolf]@TWC D-Link bookNight and Day CHAPTER I 20/20
Which reminds me, Katharine, little Mr.Anning is coming to-night, and Tite Street, and Cadogan Square....
Do remember to get that drawing of your great-uncle glazed. Aunt Millicent remarked it last time she was here, and I know how it would hurt me to see MY father in a broken glass." It was like tearing through a maze of diamond-glittering spiders' webs to say good-bye and escape, for at each movement Mrs.Hilbery remembered something further about the villainies of picture-framers or the delights of poetry, and at one time it seemed to the young man that he would be hypnotized into doing what she pretended to want him to do, for he could not suppose that she attached any value whatever to his presence.
Katharine, however, made an opportunity for him to leave, and for that he was grateful to her, as one young person is grateful for the understanding of another..
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