It's
an inconsequent thing, but there's a law in inconsequence, and I
seem to have acquired a knowledge of their tangents."
"I must consider," said Monica with a smile, "but one can't do
these things offhand--that is worse than doing nothing. I'll tell
you what to do NOW. Why not go and stay with Aunt Anne? She would
like to see you, I know, and I have always thought it rather lazy
of you not to go there--she is rather a remarkable woman, and it's
a pretty country. Have you ever been there?"
"No," said Howard, "not to Windlow; I stayed with them once when I
was a boy, when Uncle John was alive--but that was at Bristol. What
sort of a place is Windlow? I suppose Aunt Anne is pretty well
off?"
"I'm not very good at seeing the points of a place," said Monica;
"but it's a beautiful old house, though it is rather too low down
for my taste; and she lives very comfortably, so I think she must
be rich; I don't know about that; but she is an interesting woman--
one of the few really religious people I know. I am not very
religious myself, but she makes it seem rather interesting to me--
she has experiences--I don't quite know what they are; but she is a
sort of artist in religion, I think. That's a bad description,
because it sounds self-conscious; and she isn't that--she has a
sense of humour, and she doesn't rub things in. You know how if one
meets a real artist in anything--a writer, a painter, a musician--
and finds them at work, it seems almost the only thing worth doing.
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