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She preferred to think of Babcock as completely outside her life, as dead to her, and she would have disliked the possibility of meeting him in the flesh while shopping on Central avenue. It had been the only drawback to her proposed return to Benham. During the years of Selma's second marriage Benham had waxed rapidly in population and importance.
Clearly she was mesmerized, but was the tribute admiration or hostility? Mrs. Taylor was piqued, and put upon her metal. Besides she needed Selma's vote. Not being skilled in psychological analyses, she had to resort to practical methods, and invited her to afternoon tea. Selma had never been present at afternoon tea as a domestic function in her life. Nor had she seen a home like Mrs. Taylor's.
Selma had never seen the wonders of the far western scenery, and this appropriate background for their sentiment also afforded Lyons the opportunity to inspect certain railroad lines in which he was financially interested. The atmosphere of the gorgeous snow-clad peaks and impressive chasms served to heighten still further the intensity of Selma's frame of mind.
Selma's eyes were wide and roving as she and Ellen went through the drawing-room, the hall, up stairs and into the very prettily furnished suite which Ellen was occupying. "I never saw anything like this before!" exclaimed Selma. "It's the first time I was ever in a grand house. This is a grand house, isn't it?" "No it's only comfortable," replied Ellen. "Mr.
He was neither socially nor philanthropically active; he was not a club man, nor an athletic enthusiast; he was on no committees; he voted on election days, but he did not take an active part in politics. For Selma's sake all this must be changed; and he was glad to acknowledge that he owed it to himself as well as to her to widen his sympathies.
The result of this process of self-examination in her looking-glass, which was not limited to a single occasion, established more firmly than ever in Selma's opinion the malignant falsity of the imputation, and yet she was still haunted by it.
"Oh, I don't agree with you," protested Miss Hastings. "Lots of the time I'd hate to be watched. I don't want everybody to know all I do." Selma's eyes opened. "Why not?" she said. Jane cast about for a way to explain what seemed to her a self-evident truth. "I mean privacy," she said. "For instance, if you were in love, you'd not want everybody to know about it?" "Yes, indeed," declared Selma.
And, unlike some people in our respectable, but humble station, we have each other's love to give us courage to fight the battle of life bravely. I had a fresh order to-day and I have bought tickets for to-night at the theatre." Almost the first persons at the theatre on whom Selma's eyes rested were the Gregory Williamses.
The things that appeal to us most strongly don't touch her. She knows nothing about them." He added, "And that's her great charm for me." Jane nodded sympathetically. Her own case exactly. After a brief hesitation she suggested: "Perhaps Selma's in love with some one else." The pause before the vague "some one else" was almost unnoticeable. "With Victor Dorn, you mean?" said Davy.
All of these were declined, but when, in the month of April, opportunity was afforded him to deliver a speech on patriotic issues on the anniversary of the battle of Lexington, he decided, with Selma's approval, to accept the invitation. He reasoned that a short respite from the cares of office would be agreeable; she was attracted by the glamour of revisiting New York as a woman of note.
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