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Let her wash it out well and wear it in good health, in memory of me." The two of them were sitting in Tamara's room. Jennka had in the very morning sent after cognac; and now slowly, as though lazily, was imbibing wine-glass after wine-glass, eating lemon and a piece of sugar after drinking.
"The storm is coming, and four persons made too heavy a load; so Lord Courtray and Olga have gone on." Tamara's heart gave a great bound, but his face expressed nothing, and her sudden fear calmed. He was ceremoniously polite as he helped her in. Nor did he sit too near her or change his manner one atom as they went along.
Tamara, now that the tension was over, almost thought she would refuse, but the great relief and joy she felt in his presence overcame her pride, and she meekly followed him across the room. They passed the Princess on the way, and as she apparently gave some laughing reply to the Ambassador she was with, she hurriedly whispered in Tamara's ear: "Pour l'amour de Dieu!
He wore the brown coat to-day, and was handsome as a god. Then, after he had examined the stove and looked from the window, he quietly left the room. The contrast of the heat after the intense cold without made a tingling and singing in Tamara's ears. She was not sure, but thought she heard the key turn in the lock.
"I feel it is my duty to learn to play better," Tamara said, "so I am going to watch." He put down his hand and seized her wrist. "You shall certainly not," he said. "You cannot be so rude as deliberately to controvert your host. It is my pleasure that you shall sit here and talk." His eyes were flashing, and Tamara's spirit rose. "What a savage you are, Prince," she laughed.
And in reality, as they had placed her in the hospital on the floor, upon a straw mattress, so did she remain upon it without getting up from it to her very death; submerging more and more into the black, bottomless abyss of quiet feeble-mindedness; but she died only half a year later, from bed-sores and infection of the blood. The next turn was Tamara's.
"One would not have thought it!" Then again Tamara's anger rose. There was always the insinuation in his remarks, seemingly unconscious, and therefore the more irritating, that she was a commonplace fool. "Her name the heroine's is the same as my own," she said, gravely; but there was a challenge in her eyes. "Tamara!" he said.
But the fascination of it grew and grew. Every one of their ugly faces remained printed on Tamara's brain. Long afterward she would see them in dreams. How little we yet know of the force of sounds! How little we know of any of the great currents which affect the world and human life! And music above any other art stirs the sense.
"I'll run into my room for just a minute I haven't changed my dress yet, although, to tell the truth, this also is all one. When they'll be calling out for me, and I don't come in time, call out, run in after me." And, going out of Tamara's room, she embraced her by the shoulder, as though by chance, and stroked it tenderly.
Their visit had only been of four short weeks, and now it was December 27, and home and husband called her. For Tamara's part, she could do as she pleased; indeed, for two pins she would have stayed on in Egypt. But that was not the intention of fate! "Do let us go up that sand-path, Millicent," she said, when they turned out of the hotel gate.
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