Chapter FiveThe feminine occupation of waiting at home whilst the man goes out and does things, was one which had never commended itself to Sally Meredith. As Bill had, however, refused point-blank her offer to walk with him to the station, pointing out with unanswerable truth that he could walk three times as fast without her, Sally had been forced to accept the situation. She reflected that men were the most uncomfortable creatures in the world. Take Bill, for instance. When he was here he filled up the room and ignored you and rode roughshod over what you wanted to do. And when he was gone, and anyone would think you’d be thankful to have a breathing space, you felt limp, and lonely, and left behind. That was a man all over; horribly in the way when you’d got him, and horribly out of it
