The Dangerous Years (2015)
“She was anxious to get back to find out what Joan had been doing, and what she would say about having been left alone for the afternoon: but there were other thoughts and feelings which outweighed that urgency.
She was surprised to find that she had stopped, to look into the courtyard of a block of studios, rather squalid and unattractive. She wondered why she should pause thus, and the answer was instant. She wanted to sort out some of the impressions made upon her consciousness during the two... weeks since she and her daughter had arrived in Paris. Was it possible, she asked herself, that within so short a time such unexpected, even unbelievable changes, could have come into her life?
She walked on, dragging this burden of contemplation, and stopped again at the window of a small hand-laundry, staring so intently at the bundles of washing that the woman inside stared back, curious to know what interested the charmingly handsome lady, so well dressed that she must be an American. Mary hardly noticed this inspection, nor its benevolence touched with malice.MoreLess
She was surprised to find that she had stopped, to look into the courtyard of a block of studios, rather squalid and unattractive. She wondered why she should pause thus, and the answer was instant. She wanted to sort out some of the impressions made upon her consciousness during the two... weeks since she and her daughter had arrived in Paris. Was it possible, she asked herself, that within so short a time such unexpected, even unbelievable changes, could have come into her life?
She walked on, dragging this burden of contemplation, and stopped again at the window of a small hand-laundry, staring so intently at the bundles of washing that the woman inside stared back, curious to know what interested the charmingly handsome lady, so well dressed that she must be an American. Mary hardly noticed this inspection, nor its benevolence touched with malice.MoreLess
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