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Updated: June 8, 2025
They were the best thing he would ever do; precisely the thing he had always wanted to do. And yet well he knew now that he had no joy in them.... "It's tremendously generous of you," he said, mechanically. Cally's eyes wavered from his face, and she answered: "No, I'm not generous." Her struggle was to keep life fixed and constant, and all about her she found life fluent and changing.
"Cally's not the girl to get black rings under her eyes for things like that." She added presently: "It's a pure love-match, which is naturally a gratification to me, who brought the whole thing about. 'Thank God, Cally, you've got a mother, I said to her only the other day. But I do say there's such a thing as carrying love just a little too far."
Easier said than done, no doubt. Yet Cally's thoughts had at least received a powerful new twist, which is the beginning of reconstruction. And it was only a day or two later that mamma in her turn received an arousing blow, in that debasing of her by the Associated Charities which her niece-in-law, Henrietta Cooney, had mentioned to the Dabney House.
Following Hen's nod, Cally's gaze rested again on the somewhat displeasing pile on the corner, this time with a seeing eye. The girl felt as if the skies were falling. She perceived that there was some mistake. "Oh ... You mean that is part of them? But the the main part, I suppose, is " "No, this is all there is of 'em, Cally!" said Hen, suddenly with a kind note in her voice.
But as yet she would not risk that, clinging hard to the hope that Cally's sanity might come again with the sun of a new day. To-night she was for the greatest suppression possible, one eye perpetually on the little travelling-clock. However, the telephoning at last over, more details could not be avoided.
Just at the door, a party of five or six managed to come between Carlisle and Canning, who was dutifully looking out for his future mother-in-law; the girl became momentarily separated from her protectors. Or perhaps it was partly Cally's own fault, precipitated by the sight of a page standing near, who certainly seemed to have been stationed there by the hand of Providence....
Still, he had turned up the collar of his big travelling-coat, and a slight hoarseness indicated that the throat trouble which had sent him south last year had returned with the first frost. "I can draw on it for another six months' furlough," said he, meeting Cally's eyes with gay meaning, "just as soon as I have need for such a thing."
It didn't arrive till about three in the afternoon. But even then.... You see, he could hardly have expected a reply to his letter till Wednesday. That's to-day " These two sat looking at each other: and Cally's tongue was no longer free as a hurt child's. She seemed not to find it possible to speak at all now. The young man from the other world was going on, with his strange composure.
What was her silly weakness, that he never looked at her with those quite misrepresentative eyes without making her angry and unhappy?... She felt herself, as it were, turning pale inside, but into her cheeks there sprang a cold color. "You wished to see me?" "Well, do put on your hat, V.V.," interjected Hen, matter of fact, but glancing round at Cally's voice. "You'll catch pneumonia...."
He would be left in a most unpleasant position.... In this position V. Vivian remained while Carlisle slept. However, the new day, as it pleasantly proved, brought no need for such severe measures. Many rings at doorbell and telephone Cally's strained ears heard between getting up and bedtime, but the hard ring of Nemesis was never among them.
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