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However much he might arraign those who had been the agents of his fall, he knew in his heart that the fault had been his own. Norma Pelton, tensely self-repressed, spoke now. "How can you do this, sir?" "I can't do it so long as you hold me for an enemy, ma'am. I'm ready to cry quits with your husband and try a new deal. If I injured him he tried to even things up.
But she had not, and but for the pain when she remembered the coming separation, she would have been very happy that evening, listening with Wilford and Helen to the opera of "Norma," and sympathizing so keenly with the poor distracted mother.
Leslie interpolated, bitterly. Norma laughed. "Sixteen thou ! Oh, heavens, my husband's salary is sixty dollars a week!" she confessed, gaily. "But you have your own money," the old lady reminded her, kindly, "and a very nice thing for a wife, too! I've talked to Judge Lee about it, dear, and it's all arranged. You must let me do this, Norma "
"She's had a stroke," he said, still with that urgent and hurried air, "and Joseph poor old fellow, he was completely broken up said that she had been begging them to get hold of you!" Norma had gotten into the familiar front seat, but now she stayed him with a quick hand. "Wait a minute, Chris, I'll run up and tell Aunt Kate where I am going!" she said. "She's gone out.
All but one; one was left, in whose baby mind was fixed an unfaltering supposition that she must dance, as she had done alone, over and over again at the rehearsals for her tiny benefit, until the music stopped. So, while Norma Bonkowski wrung her hands and the stage manager swore, and all behind the scenes was confusion and dismay, the Angel danced on.
What Norma all that tired and panicky afternoon had planned to say to Wolf on this occasion was something like this: "Wolf, if you ever loved me, and if I ever did anything that made you happy, and if all these years when I have been your little sister, and your chum, and your wife, mean anything to you don't push me away now!
"But how could she possibly know that?" cried out Ethel Lacey. "No one except the five of us knew it until Norma told you this morning." "I hope you don't think " began Freda. A hurt look had crept into her soft, brown eyes. "How could we possibly think such a thing?" cut in Jane assuringly. "We can readily understand that Miss Noble's call must have been a complete surprise to you.
There was also a note in pencil, on the bottom of an egg-box, for the nurses who rented two rooms, should either one of them chance to come in and be hungry, she was to eat "the pudding and the chicken stew, and get herself a good supper." Norma, chuckling a little, got herself the good supper instead.
You must try to make your life what they think it is those good people that love you! And I'll try, too! I do try. And you mustn't cry, my little sweetheart," Chris added, with a tenderness so new, and so poignantly sweet, that Norma was almost faint with the sheer joy of it, "you mustn't blame me for just saying this, this once, because it's for the last time! We mustn't meet " His voice dropped.
Titiens sang successively in the characters which she had interpreted during her previous visit to London, adding to them the magnificent rôle of Norma, whose breadth and grandeur of passion made it peculiarly favorable for the display of her genius.
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