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Well, perhaps he's an incurable optimist," he summed up, springing into the Hanaford car. By the time he reached Mrs. Westmore's door his wrath had subsided, and he felt that he had himself well in hand.
He too was already beginning to chafe at the uncongenial exile of Hanaford, and he shared his daughter's desire to despatch the tiresome business before them. Mr. Tredegar had meanwhile appeared, and when Amherst had been named to him, and had received his Olympian nod, Bessy anxiously imparted her difficulty. "But how ill is Mr. Truscomb?
"In order to dazzle Hanaford with the fact that he has been staying at Lynbrook!" "Nonsense the novelty of that has worn off. He's been here three times since we came back." "You are admirably hospitable to your family " Bessy let her pretty ringed hands fall with a discouraged gesture. "Why do you find him so much worse than than other people?" Justine's eye-brows rose again.
Langhope did approve was presently made manifest by every outward show of consideration toward the newly-wedded couple. Amherst and Justine had been married in September; and after a holiday in Canada and the Adirondacks they returned to Hanaford for the winter. Amherst had proposed a short flight to Europe; but his wife preferred to settle down at once to her new duties.
Gaines's garden-party seemed an unlikely field for the exercise of such curiosity: Justine's few glimpses of Hanaford society had revealed it as rather a dull thick body, with a surface stimulated only by ill-advised references to the life of larger capitals; and the concentrated essence of social Hanaford was of course to be found at the Gaines entertainments.
She rose as she spoke, and crossed over to the hearth. "I want to go back to my nursing to go out to Michigan, to a town where I spent a few months the year before I first came to Hanaford. I have friends there, and can get work easily. And you can tell people that I was ill and needed a change."
The return from Europe, and the taking up of the daily routine at Hanaford, were the most difficult phases in this process of moral adaptation. Justine's departure had at first brought relief.
I ought to have insisted on seeing Dillon yesterday but I begin to think the matron didn't want me to." Amherst left this inference to work itself out in her mind, contenting himself, as they drove back to Hanaford, with answering her questions about Dillon's family, the ages of his children, and his wife's health.
Justine's first impression, as her friend's charming arms received her with an eagerness of welcome not lost on the suspended judgment of feminine Hanaford the immediate impression was of a gain of emphasis, of individuality, as though the fluid creature she remembered had belied her prediction, and run at last into a definite mould.
Till then she could not go back to Hanaford. She pleaded that she was a little tired, below par...and to return to Hanaford meant returning to hard work; with the best will in the world she could not be idle there. Might she not, she suggested, take Cicely to Tuxedo or Lakewood, and thus get quite away from household cares and good works? She saw Amherst's eyes rest anxiously on her as Mr.
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