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Updated: June 22, 2025
"Darling, if we return from what has proven to be a wild-goose chase, will you promise me not to become disheartened, to lose faith in me?" "Of course not, Johnnie ... I think Darrie offered very good advice," she sighed. Back we turned, by the next day's train, full of a sense of frustration; what an involved, unromantic, practical world we lived in!
"Who's down there?" asked Darrie's voice, with a dash of hysteria in it ... of hysteria and fright. "Damn it, there's Darrie waked up." "Such a clatter would wake anyone up!" "Who's there, I say!" "It's only me, Darrie ... I got hungry in the night and came up to the house to snatch a bite to eat." "Oh ... I'm coming down to join you, then."
"For God's sake don't think I'm jealous of Darrie ... I'm only wild about the way she encourages Mubby to talk over his troubles with her and tell her about him and me, asking her advice ... as if she could give any advice worth while "They began to talk and talk about me just as if I were a laboratory specimen.... "Damn this laboratory marriage! damn this laboratory love!
"What in the world could be the matter with Hildreth?" I asked of Ruth. Darrie had also departed, to the big house, to rub her blouse quickly, so that no stain would remain. "Hildreth's capricious," answered Ruth, "but the plain explanation is downright jealousy." "Jealousy?"
How they got the contents of the telegram I do not know, but on my honour I did not give it out nor did I tell the reporters where you are." Hildreth was so angry she could hardly speak. "This is a fine to-do," exclaimed Darrie, "Penton distinctly promised me " "I'd like to get a good crack at him!" I boasted, at the same time enjoying the excitement.
"It's so awful," replied Darrie, now crying quietly, " so tragic ... yet I had to laugh ... I'm so sorry for Penton ... for both of them.... "Penton is such a jackass, Johnnie," she gulped, "and God knows, as I do, he's such an honest, good man ... helping poor people all over the country ... really fighting the fight of the down-trodden and the oppressed."
I knew that, in spite of the high pressure we had lived under during the past summer, Darrie was trying hard to be just, to be friend to all of us.... She laughed at the disorder of the place ... dishes unwashed ... food scattered about on the table.... "What a pair of love-birds you two are." "And has Penton accepted the situation?"
His wife came twice a week to clean up and set things to rights in the Baxter menage his two houses. I took care of the tent myself, while I was there.... By this time Darrie, Ruth, and Mrs. Baxter were up. I sat in the library, in the morris chair, deeply immersed in the life of Nietzsche, by his sister.
And I held Darrie in friendly tenderness, much as the bourgeois business man holds the supernumerary women of his household, though she was by no means that, nor was she in any way dependent on me.... I was finding it very good to own, to possess, to take root; to be possessed and owned, in turn. I carried an obscure sense of triumph over Baxter.
Between the three women, nevertheless, Hildreth was easily my choice already ... Darrie was lovely, but talked like a débutante from morning till night.... Ruth had too much of the quietist in her, the non-resistent.
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