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If Archie realized Tom Clark's return to Highcourt, he was wise enough to make nothing of it. He was in a poor way nervously at this time, playing bad polo and drinking altogether too much. He stayed away from the city, which was a nuisance to Adelle, but he spent most of his time at the country club.
Adelle herself felt cold with excitement of all sorts, and could hardly control her voice enough to say unconcernedly, "Haven't seen you, Mr. Clark, for some time." "No!" "Did you go up to San Francisco?" "Yep!" "Did you see another opera?" "There weren't no opera this trip," the mason replied, spitting out his quid. "I seed other things." "Is that so what?"
"It took you an awful time," he grumbled to his wife. "What was the trouble?" "Nothing," Adelle replied. As she got into the car she gave the driver an order, "Go out to Alton." "Where's that?" Archie inquired. "A little way out across the river," Adelle informed him. "What do you want to go there for it's nearly lunch-time," Archie demurred.
Adelle always said "bon giorno" when she ran across them toiling up the slippery paths with their loads of stone or cement. She liked the way in which they showed their teeth and touched their hats politely to "la signora." They had a feeling for her as the mistress of the house, a latent sense of feudal loyalty to their employer that had quite disappeared among the other workmen.
Adelle had not understood then, nor had she thought of it all these years. But now the incident came back to her from its deep resting-place in her consciousness, and she understood its full meaning. She, too, was a child of God! albeit she had lived many years and done folly and suffered sorrow before she could recognize it.
They were still sitting before the shack on boxes in the red light of the descending sun and Clark was explaining to "cousin" his theory of the unimportance of family ties, when Archie came up the path. Adelle perceived him first, and hastily getting up went to meet him.
Adelle dressed slowly, revolving in her mind what she should say to Irene, who had called Archie a "bounder," and descended to the salon where the family were waiting for her. Nothing was said until they were seated at the dinner-table. Irene obstinately kept her eyes away and Adelle felt troubled.
He paid no attention whatever to the woman behind him. Adelle was prettily dressed in a costume of white linen with a cloud of chiffon tied about her small hat and a parasol that she had purchased this summer in Paris, which consisted of an enormous gold lace butterfly. She was fuller in figure than before her child had come and in perfect health, though still pale.
She pleaded with Adelle to leave her so-called husband and come back with her to the Neuilly villa "until the matter could be straightened out, and an announcement of the marriage made to the world," as she was wily enough to put it. But Adelle was adamant. Archie, to whom the woman next appealed, was more yielding.
I've seen them lose their teeth because of fruit's low mineral content, high sugar level and constant fruit acids in their mouths. There's the Adelle Davis school, people eating whole grains, handfuls of vitamins, lots of dairy and brewers yeast and wheat germ, and even raw liver. Then there's the Organic school.
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