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And she asked herself, in this mood of introspection, whether a little of his contempt for Lily Dallam's guests had not been communicated from him to her. When she had risen to leave, he had followed her into the entry.
"I'm sure she paid a fabulous price for it in Paris, and it's exactly like one I ordered on Tuesday." The details of the rest of this conversation may be omitted. That Honora was forgiven, and Mrs. Dallam's spirits restored may be inferred from her final remark. "My dear, what do you think of Sid and Howard making twenty thousand dollars apiece in Sassafras Copper? Isn't it too lovely!
But I did reach that funny little man Pedaloski by telephone, and found out from him why he had pinned the paper on Dallam's coat. I did not tell my husband about it. He doesn't know yet. I don't think I shall ever tell him. For two days, judge, I wrestled with the problem of whether I should send for my mother and tell her that now I knew the thing which all her life she had guarded from me.
"He even looks at the soup as though he were examining a security!" Needless to say, it did not cure him, although it sealed Lily Dallam's fate and incidentally that of Quicksands.
The kind of man I thought I was getting when I took you only I shouldn't be fooled again. Women remarry a good deal in these days, and I'm beginning to see the reason why. And the women who have done it appear to be perfectly happy much happier than they were at first. I saw one of them at Lily Dallam's this afternoon. She was radiant.
It was running through Honora's mind, while Lily Dallam's characteristic introductions of the other guests were in progress, that "irrepressible" was an inaccurate word to apply to Mr. Brent's manner. Honora could not define his attitude, but she vaguely resented it.
The kind of man I thought I was getting when I took you only I shouldn't be fooled again. Women remarry a good deal in these days, and I'm beginning to see the reason why. And the women who have done it appear to be perfectly happy much happier than they were at first. I saw one of them at Lily Dallam's this afternoon. She was radiant.
And she asked herself, in this mood of introspection, whether a little of his contempt for Lily Dallam's guests had not been communicated from him to her. When she had risen to leave, he had followed her into the entry.
"With Sid Dallam's love," he said, as she pinned them on her gown. "I tried to get Lily Mrs. Sid for lunch, but you never can put your finger on her. She'll amuse you, Honora." "Oh, Howard, it's so much pleasanter lunching alone to-day. I'm glad you didn't. And then afterwards ?" He refused, however, to be drawn.
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