“I was already aware of the fact. She mounted the stairs of the theatrical agent’s office with very much less than her usual buoyancy, nor did she find much encouragement in the general appearance of the room into which she was shown. She repeated this breathlessly. For the face under her gaze she could find but one expression—fine. Then she would have quiet times, in which she would say to herself, “Now look here! Let me think it all out!” For the first time, it seemed to her, she faced the facts of a woman’s position in the world—the meagre realities of such freedom as it permitted her, the almost unavoidable obligation to some individual man under which she must labor for even a foothold in the world. Agents were dispersed in all directions—offers the most tempting held out to induce the wavering to join the Chevalier's standard. She changed her mind that day, as her mother Marina had predicted. Michelle tossed her hair like a young colt flicking its tail. She cleaned everything, wiped every surface, mopped and scrubbed every last drop of blood. " "Jack," replied Thames, greatly moved, "I wish I could devise any means of brightening your own dark prospects.
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