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She bows to them with the utmost dignity, and goes on her way to madame's, whom she finally beguiles out in her pony carriage. Madame has been extremely complimentary about the garden party, the freshness and unique manner in which it was arranged, and the pretty serving. She heard it again at the Dyckmans', and is now far up the pinnacle of self-complacency.
At the Dyckmans' they discuss the Grandon defection. Laura Dyckman thinks Eugene Grandon such a "divine dancer," and to-night young men are at a premium, though there are some distinguished older ones who do not dance. The next morning Marcia passes Violet and Eugene driving leisurely along. They have had a charming call at the Latimers', and Violet's face is bright and full of vivacity.
"How could I, with a husband in Chicago? He wasn't much of a husband just enough to keep me from marrying a real man. For one day, who should come to the studio but Jim Dyckman!" "Any relation to the big Dyckmans?" said Adna. "He's the son of the biggest one of them all," said Kedzie. "And you know him?" "Do I know him? Doesn't he want to marry me? Isn't that the whole trouble?
When Kedzie poured out her story and explained that the famous Mrs. Charity Cheever was the wreckress of her home Mr. Beattie saw head-lines everywhere. If the Dyckmans had been a humble couple he would have tried to reconcile them, perhaps, or he would have separated them with little noise. But it was noise he wanted. The longer and louder the trial the more free space Mr. Beattie would get.
Altruism is perhaps the most expensive of the virtues. No less epochal were those months for the Dyckmans, bride and groom. Their problems began to bourgeon immediately after they left New Jersey and went to Kedzie's old apartment for further debate as to their future lodgings. Mr. and Mrs. Thropp were amazed by their sudden return. Adna was a trifle sheepish.
There was the embarrassment of meeting people who brought their prejudices with their visiting-cards and did not leave their prejudices as they did their cards. The newspapers had to have their say, and they did not make pleasant reading to any of the Dyckmans. Kedzie took a little comfort from reading what the papers had to say about Mrs.
The Dyckmans had poor relations and friends in poverty and old peasant-folk whom they loved and admired and were proud to know. But Dyckman felt that the elder Thropps deserved to be rebuffed with snobbery because of their own snobbery. Nevertheless, he was absolutely incapable of administering discipline. At last Mrs.
But how to shake it off was the problem. Kedzie had to cling to Strathdene with one hand while she tried to release herself from the Dyckmans with the other. She had a dreadful feeling that she might lose them both if she were not exceedingly careful and exceedingly lucky. Help came to her unexpectedly from Charity Coe, unexpectedly, though Charity was always helping Kedzie.
The presence of the servants was depressing, and when the long meal was over and the four Dyckmans were alone in the drawing-room, they were less at ease than before. They had not even knives and forks to play with. Mrs. Dyckman said at length, "Are you going to the theater, do you think?" Jim did not care or dare to take his bride abroad just yet. He shook his head. Mrs.
His father broke in again, "It might save a few hours of dodging and cross-examination if you'd tell us who and what she is." "She is known professionally as Anita Adair." So parochial a thing is fame that the title which millions of people had learned to know and love meant absolutely nothing to the Dyckmans.
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