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She took only such things as she needed, and left her dinner-gowns hanging in the closets. A few precious books of her own she chose, but the jewellery her husband had given her was put in boxes and laid upon the dressing-table. In one of these boxes was her wedding ring. When luncheon was over, an astonished and perturbed butler packed the Leffingwell silver and sent it off to storage.
It isn't your fault, perhaps, that you don't understand that a woman needs something more than dinner-gowns and jewels and and trips abroad. Her only possible compensation for living with a man is love. Love and you haven't the faintest conception of it. It isn't your fault, perhaps. It's my fault for marrying you. I didn't know any better." She paused with her breast heaving.
It isn't your fault, perhaps, that you don't understand that a woman needs something more than dinner-gowns and jewels and and trips abroad. Her only possible compensation for living with a man is love. Love and you haven't the faintest conception of it. It isn't your fault, perhaps. It's my fault for marrying you. I didn't know any better." She paused with her breast heaving.
"But there is always a but I want New York to know me in some better way. I'm tired of these women with cigarettes and spangled dinner-gowns." She laid her hand again on her mother's knee, and the gentle old fingers closed around the firm, smooth wrist. "I've told mother that I will cut these rôles out. We are at last in a position to do as we please.
Madame wore velvet dinner-gowns, it is true, and her house was elegant in its fine old furnishings bought generations ago; but only her dressmaker and herself knew how many times those gowns had been ripped and cleaned and remodelled. It was only constant housewifely skill that kept the antique furniture repaired and the ancient brocade hangings from falling into holes.
She took only such things as she needed, and left her dinner-gowns hanging in the closets. A few precious books of her own she chose, but the jewellery her husband had given her was put in boxes and laid upon the dressing-table. In one of these boxes was her wedding ring. When luncheon was over, an astonished and perturbed butler packed the Leffingwell silver and sent it off to storage.
It isn't your fault, perhaps, that you don't understand that a woman needs something more than dinner-gowns and jewels and and trips abroad. Her only possible compensation for living with a man is love. Love and you haven't the faintest conception of it. It isn't your fault, perhaps. It's my fault for marrying you. I didn't know any better." She paused with her breast heaving.
And when the captain of the Natal Carbineers said, "I am afraid the good news is too premature," we all said, hopefully, we were afraid it was. We had seen nothing yet that was like real war. That night at Pietermaritzburg the officers at the hotel were in mess-jackets, the officers' wives in dinner-gowns. It was like Shepheard's Hotel, at the top of the season.
She took only such things as she needed, and left her dinner-gowns hanging in the closets. A few precious books of her own she chose, but the jewellery her husband had given her was put in boxes and laid upon the dressing-table. In one of these boxes was her wedding ring. When luncheon was over, an astonished and perturbed butler packed the Leffingwell silver and sent it off to storage.
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