[Night and Day by Virginia Woolf]@TWC D-Link bookNight and Day CHAPTER VI 20/31
Directly he had done speaking she burst out: "But surely, if you care about the welfare of your sex at all, you must wish them to have the vote ?" "I never said I didn't wish them to have the vote," Katharine protested. "Then why aren't you a member of our society ?" Mrs.Seal demanded. Katharine stirred her spoon round and round, stared into the swirl of the tea, and remained silent.
Mr.Clacton, meanwhile, framed a question which, after a moment's hesitation, he put to Katharine. "Are you in any way related, I wonder, to the poet Alardyce? His daughter, I believe, married a Mr.Hilbery." "Yes; I'm the poet's granddaughter," said Katharine, with a little sigh, after a pause; and for a moment they were all silent. "The poet's granddaughter!" Mrs.Seal repeated, half to herself, with a shake of her head, as if that explained what was otherwise inexplicable. The light kindled in Mr.Clacton's eye. "Ah, indeed.
That interests me very much," he said.
"I owe a great debt to your grandfather, Miss Hilbery.
At one time I could have repeated the greater part of him by heart.
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