Ann Veronica found herself walking back down the Avenue that had just been the scene of her first proposal beside her aunt, and speculating for the first time in her life about that lady’s mental attitudes. She became more and more alive, not so much to a system of ideas as to a big diffused impulse toward change, to a great discontent with and criticism of life as it is lived, to a clamorous confusion of ideas for reconstruction—reconstruction of the methods of business, of economic development, of the rules of property, of the status of children, of the clothing and feeding and teaching of every one; she developed a quite exaggerated consciousness of a multitude of people going about the swarming spaces of London with their minds full, their talk and gestures full, their very clothing charged with the suggestion of the urgency of this pervasive project of alteration. “The most important is that I have a new admirer. ‘You make me talk, you make me talk. Now how in the world was he to get rid of the husband? His luck was in. She spied him sitting on his armless black couch, his feet splayed as he stared at his television blankly. She stood on the mat instead, and looked down on him. The old woman told him she had no such article to dispose of, but recommended him to a neighbouring blacksmith. It was as if her aesthetic sense had become inflamed. A broken laugh followed the action. Still silence everywhere. The immense disillusionment that awaited him! The devastating disillusionment! She had a vague desire to run after him, to state her case to him, to wring some understanding from him of what life was to her.
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