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In spite of his self-control, his hand shook a little. "It's a ridiculous business," he said. "That precious young Sanitist has so worked his confounded theories into Thyme that she has gone off to the Euston Road to put them into practice, of all things!" At the half-concerned amusement on Hilary's face his quick and rather narrow eyes glinted.
He says that we have got to shake ourselves free of all the old sentimental notions, and just work at putting everything to the test of Health. Father calls Martin a 'Sanitist'; and Uncle Hilary says that if you wash people by law they'll all be as dirty again tomorrow...." Thyme paused again. A blackbird in the garden of the Square was uttering a long, low, chuckling trill.
In the middle of a remark about the opera, Stephen, looking up, saw Martin himself standing in the doorway. The young Sanitist looked pale, dusty, and dishevelled. He advanced towards Cecilia, and said with his usual cool determination: "I've brought her back, Aunt Cis."
Like water, human character will find its level; and Nature, with her way of fitting men to their environment, had made young Martin Stone what Stephen called a "Sanitist." There had been nothing else for her to do with him.
"Did she bring our young Sanitist in too?" asked Stephen dubiously. "No," said Hilary. "Good! That young man gets on my nerves." Taking his elder brother by the arm, he added: "Will you come in again, old boy, or shall we go for a stroll?" "A stroll," said Hilary.
Nettled by this, Stephen answered: "Don't confound me with our young Sanitist, please; I simply think there are probably a hundred things you don't know about the girl which ought to be cleared up." "And then?" "Then," said Stephen, "they could er deal with her accordingly."
She began by giving him a kiss, and then said casually: "Thyme has got a whim into her head." "What whim?" "It's rather what you might expect," faltered Cecilia, "from her going about so much with Martin." Stephen's face assumed at once an air of dry derision; there was no love lost between him and his young nephew-in-law. "The Sanitist?" he said; "ah! Well?"
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