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Updated: May 13, 2025
I did not even then shake hands with Alathea, and the Duchesse came out into the passage with me, to see me safe into the lift, she is always so kind to anything crippled. "Nicholas," she whispered, "Her manner to you is very cruel, but do not be discouraged! I feel that it is more promising than if she were kind.
I looked out of the window and kissed my hand to a young girl in the street. I wanted to call to her, "I could walk with you now, perhaps soon I could run!" She looked at me with the corner of her eye! Then I planned how I would surprise Alathea! I would be in my bedroom when I knew she was in the salon before lunch, and then I would walk in!
Perhaps not once in the world's history had any maiden-lady, constitutionally opposed to betting and the race-track, given as much thought to an impending contest between horses on which great sums were certain to be won and lost, as Miss Alathea did, these days. And if Miss Alathea was excited, what should be said about the gallant Colonel?
But they are the truth, even if I now laugh at my expansion! I wonder how many men are romantic underneath like I am and ashamed to show it? When Alathea had finished the verses for the second time, she again dropped the book in her lap. "What is your conception of love?" I asked casually.
I believe I should have answered like that even if there had been no Miss Sharp, Alathea in the case, just because I now knew Nina really wanted me to stay every man is like that, more or less, if only women knew! The whole sex relation is one of fence until the object has been secured and then emotion dies out altogether, or is revived in one or the other, but very seldom in both.
And after tea when Alathea had not arrived I began taking longer turns, walking up and down the broad corridor, and at last I paused outside her room, and a desire came over me to look in on it, and see how she had arranged it. There was silence. I listened a moment, then I opened the door. The fire was not lit, it all seemed cold and cheerless. I turned on the light.
"Real love would be I suppose if you could make her adore you before you looked any handsomer!" And this sentence of Nina's rang in my ears long after she had gone, and often in the night. I could not sleep, I felt something had happened and that fate might be going to take Miss Sharp Alathea from me .
She had decided, in advance, that she would like Miss Alathea, aunt of her woodland instructor; she knew positively that she would like the doughty colonel, lover of god horses, barred from racing by his love for Frank's inexorable aunt. But the other members of the party he had told about the Holtons she was not so sure that she would care for them.
Of course no one is revolted they feel pity and that is perhaps worse. When I get my leg too, shall I have the nerve to make love to Alathea and use all the arts which used to be so successful in the old days? I believe if I were back in 1914 I should still be as nervous as a cat when with her Is this one of the symptoms of love again?
The Duchesse has arranged that I should meet my fiancée in her sitting-room and sign the contract there on the day before the wedding, five days from now. Alathea, she tells me is like a frozen image, but faithful to her promise to me, my dear old friend has not made any comment or tried to aid matters.
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