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RAMSDEN. TANNER. She comes into the room very determinedly: the two men, perplexed and downcast, following her. I will tell you. You can refuse to accept the guardianship. RAMSDEN. What on earth does it matter who he is? I soon noticed that you didn't like the true stories.

I hope you agree with me, Granny? Refuse! OCTAVIUS. If you two men won't carry them out I must say it is rather hard that you should put the responsibility on Ann. Doesn't that do you good? Here endeth my first and last attempt to assert my authority. But I do so want her to eat me that I can bear your brutalities because they give me hope.

ANN. You pose as an advanced man. OCTAVIUS. TANNER. RAMSDEN. [much troubled] There, Susan! That book is the disgraceful action he has been talking about.

If it were not a passion--if it were not the mightiest of the passions, all the other passions would sweep it away like a leaf before a hurricane. He may know it: we cannot tell. My dear Walkley: You once asked me why I did not write a Don Juan play.

All the same, I owe it to myself--

All boys are foolish sometimes; but Tavy was always a really good boy. MISS RAMSDEN.

He will never know what I felt.

OCTAVIUS.

Turn up her nose, give a cast to her eye, replace her black and violet confection by the apron and feathers of a flower girl, strike all the aitches out of her speech, and Ann would still make men dream. However, I quite feel that you have all placed yourselves in a very painful position; and the most truly considerate thing for me to do is to go at once. TANNER. Consequently he has always classed himself as an advanced thinker and fearlessly outspoken reformer. It's only too hideously true.

TANNER. Have I been inconsiderate? Poor Jack! ANN. TANNER. Why, it is just because she is self-sacrificing that she will not sacrifice those she loves.

She either pledges her word never to see that man again, or else she finds some new friends; and the sooner the better. [touched on his most sensitive point] I deny that. [She looks at him without the slightest curiosity, but waits, apparently as much to finish getting her glove on as to hear what he has to say]. Tavy: don't you be a selfish ass. ANN. RAMSDEN. VIOLET. You have no desire for that sort of notoriety. ANN. You know, Mr Ramsden, I don't care about money or about what people call position; and I can't bring myself to take an interest in the business of struggling for them. Ann: as your guardian, I order you to go to Violet at once and be particularly kind to her. OCTAVIUS. Say I cannot see him. ANN.

TANNER. He spoke to her about it; and she said I was right. TANNER. Perhaps I was wrong. [bowing to the storm] I have no defence: I shall know better in future than to take any woman's part. Look here: if you insult me again I'll take you at your word and leave your house. [He takes from the table a book bound in red cloth]. Oh, Jack, you talk of saving me from my highest happiness. OCTAVIUS.

You will make me so unhappy if you refuse to be friends with me. TANNER. You broke all the cucumber frames with your catapult. how abominable! Poor Ricky Tiky Tavy! I do. The old cats! Don't, Tavy: you'll make me ill. VIOLET. [rising also and interrupting him] Oh, we understand: it's against your conscience; but still you'll do it. When you go to heaven, Ann, you will be frightfully conscious of your wings for the first year or so. You have read it, I believe? Not that Octavius's admiration is in any way ridiculous or discreditable.

I say your play, because qui Of course. You are at present a guest beneath the roof of one of the old cats, sir. What would you not give, Tavy, to turn it into a railway accident, with all her bones broken or something equally respectable and deserving of sympathy? And yet the wickedest child that ever was slapped could hardly have had a better time. Of course not. these were battles, bombardments, stratagems to save our scalps from the red Indians. Tanner retreats to the wall between the busts and pretends to study the pictures.

Rhoda must have a guardian; and though I am older, I do not think any young unmarried woman should be left quite to her own guidance. [gently] No you don't, Jack. And now let's sit down and have a family council. VIOLET. But when you win her on your own merits, it will be a great happiness to her to fulfil her father's desire as well as her own.

[almost pushing Ann aside as she comes to Mr. Whitefield's chair and plants herself there resolutely] I wash my hands of the whole affair.

ANN. Even the top of Roebuck's head is polished: on a sunshiny day he could heliograph his orders to distant camps by merely nodding. nonsense!

He thinks it's your duty for Rhoda's sake to ask him to act alone and to make me withdraw. But now Tanner is a grown man and Annie a grown woman. Epistle Dedicatory To Arthur Bingham Walkley

It's agreed that we all stand by Violet.