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"The substance of it, then," Lemoyne had demanded; and Cope, reluctant and shame-faced, had given it. "You've never been in anything of this sort, you know," he submitted. "I should say not!" Lemoyne retorted. "Nor you, either. You're not in it now, or, if you are, you're soon going to be out of it. You would help me through a thing like this, and I'm going to help you." The talk went on.
"She does not feel that we are quite so well suited to each other as we ought to be, nor that her feeling toward me is what love really... Can she have been in dramatics too!" "Your letter," returned Lemoyne, with dignity, "would have been understood." "Quite so," Cope acknowledged, in a kind of exultant excitation.
He saw the amazement, and worse, of Arthur Lemoyne, whose plans for coming to town were now all made and to whom this turn would prove a psychological shock which might deter him from coming at all. But, most of all, he saw and felt to the depths of his being his own essential repugnance to the life toward which he now seemed headed. What an outlook for Christmas!
Lemoyne felt the composition to be primitive, antiquated and of slight value; but he had received his cue, and both his throat and his hands wrought with an elaborate expressiveness. He sang and played, if not with sincerity, at least with effect. Cope was a perfect second, and the two went at it with a complete unity of understanding and of sentiment.
Lemoyne himself gave a few hours a week to Psychology in its humbler ranges. There were ways to hold the attention of children, and there were forms of advertising calculated to affect favorably the man who had money to spend. In addition, the University had found out that he could sing as well as act, and something had been said about a place for him in a musical play.
Randolph presently began to feel Lemoyne as a variously yet equivocally gifted young fellow one so curiously endowed as to be of no use to his own people, and of no avail for any career they were able to offer him.
There may be a good reason this time, too," said Randolph soberly. "Humph!" returned Foster. Cope had hung up the receiver to turn toward Lemoyne and to say: "I really ought to have gone." "Wait until I can go with you," Lemoyne insisted, as he had been insisting just before. The still unseen man of Indian Rock was again the subject of his calculations. "You've been asked," Cope submitted.
Pearson, who was in a conquering mood tonight, scented a rival in the general attention, and one not wholly unworthy. Pearson was the only one of the four in evening dress, and he felt that to be an advantage. He, at least, had been properly attired to meet the elegant visitor from abroad. All costumes were alike to Lemoyne; he had appeared in dozens.
Arthur Lemoyne, whom you recall, is studying psychology here, and we are keeping house together. He wishes to be remembered. I thank you for your many kindnesses, that is put in as a mere possibility, 'and also send best regards to Mrs. Phillips and the members of her household. Sincerely yours, Bertram L. Cope." "I won't accept that!" cried Medora.
Cope sighed apprehensively and went down. Of course it was Amy. Would he not come over for an hour? Everybody was away, and they could have a quiet talk together. Cope, conscious of others in the house, replied cautiously. Lemoyne, he said, had gone out and left him with a deskful of themes: tiresome routine work, but necessary, and immensely absorptive of time.
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