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Alderling stood looking at him, not me, with a smile hovering about the corners of her mouth, which, when it decided not to alight anywhere, scarcely left her aspect graver for its flitting. She said at last, in her slow, deep-throated voice, "I guess I will let you tell him."
I held that in such a case, counter-testimony should not be allowed to invalidate the testimony for the fact." "Yes, that is what I meant," said Alderling. "You say it more clearly in the book, though." "Oh, of course." He began again, more remotely from the affair in hand than he had left off, as if he wanted to give himself room for parley with my possible incredulity.
They laid it to her eating some fruit which they allowed her." Alderling spoke with a kind of bitter patience, but in my own mind I was not able to put all the blame on the doctors. Neither did I blame that innocently earthy creature, who was of no more harm in her strong appetite than any other creature which gluts its craving as simply as it feels it.
"When a man laughs at a woman for no apparent reason it is because he is amused at her being afraid of him when he is so much more afraid of her, or puzzled by him when she is such an incomparable riddle herself, or caring for him when he knows he is not worth his salt." "You don't expect to put me off with that sort of thing," I said. "Well, then, go on Marion," Alderling repeated. Mrs.
Rulledge was by when I read it, and he decided, with that unsparing activity of his, where other people are concerned, that I must go; I certainly could not resist such an appeal as that. He had a vague impression, he said, of something weird in the situation down there, and I ought to go and pull Alderling out of it; besides, I might find my account in it as a psychologist.
"I know what you mean," I said, "and it was one of the facts which most interested me in Mrs. Alderling." "Because I wasn't worthy of it? No man is!" "It wasn't a question of that in my mind; I don't believe that occurred to me. It was the Ding an sich that interested me, or as it related itself to her, and not the least as it related itself to you.
I was mounted and was riding on, forgetful of Alderling, and what he had to tell me, if he had anything, but he recalled me to myself by having apparently forgotten me, for when I paused, he took up his affair at a quite different point, and as though that were the question in hand.
Now and then I saw him get up and shake himself restively, but I am bound to say in her behalf, that her pursuit of him seemed quite involuntary, and that she enjoyed it no more than he did. Twenty times I was on the point of asking, "Why don't you people go in for a good long separation? Is there nothing to call you to Europe, Alderling?
"I don't suppose he meant anything pretty?" said Alderling, with a look up over his shoulder at his wife; and then he said to me, "We do; and there are some very curious things I could tell you, if Marion would ever let me get in a word." "Do let him, Mrs. Alderling," I entreated, humoring his joke at her silence. She smiled, and softly shrugged, and then sighed.
I hesitated a day, out of self-respect, or self-assertion, and then, the weather coming on suddenly hot, in the beginning of September, I went. Of course I had meant to go, all along, but I was not so glad when I arrived, as I might have been if Alderling had given me a little warmer welcome.
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