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Updated: May 7, 2025
"If I saw the slightest chance of falling in love with you which I don't I should try all the harder to free myself." "I don't see how you could try any harder than you have. You begin to make me suspicious." "Miss Fenimer " "Christine, please." "Christine, I am not the least bit in love with you." "Quite sure that you're not whistling to keep your courage up?" "Quite sure."
I have a friend who has just married a girl whom he three times explicitly refused only because she asked him to." Miss Fenimer looked at him thoughtfully. "Surely you exaggerate," she said. He shook his head sadly. "I wish I did," he returned, "but I assure you that is the great secret that any man would rather marry any woman than refuse her to her face.
She almost shuddered. "One actually married him." "And what happened to her?" Miss Fenimer shook her head. "I don't know. She's living in the suburbs somewhere. I haven't seen her for ages." "And the other?" "She was more practical. She married him to a rich widow ten years older than he was. That provided for him, you see, at least. But it turned out worse than the other case." "How?"
Lane it was almost the hour for dressing for dinner; and then Max sat gossiping with Mrs. Lane, for whom he had always had the deepest affection, until he knew he was going to be late. They were late a difficult thing to be in the Fenimer household. The party, a small one, was waiting when Miss Lane and Mr. Riatt were ushered in. Nancy was there, and Hickson, and Mr.
Riatt stopped and considered an instant with his head on one side. "She'd make me awfully comfortable," he said. Miss Fenimer nodded, as much as to say: yes, but even so "No," he said at length, as if the decision had been close. "No, after all I would rather do the work and have you. But it isn't because you are a poor housekeeper that I prefer you. It's because "
Miss Fenimer looked thoughtful. "I was trying to think," she said. "Yes, there was a young artist two years ago that I was rather interested in. He was very nice looking, and Nancy Almar kept telling me how much he was in love with her." "And that stimulated your interest?" "Of course."
Ussher had been absolutely single-minded, she would not have invited Mrs. Almar to this party; but though a warm friend to Christine Fenimer, Laura was not a fanatic, and the piratical Nancy was her friend, too. Mrs.
You have just heard Miss Fenimer say that she did not love you and that she considered your engagement at an end." "I heard her say she had told you that." "You mean to imply that she said what was untrue?" "I could answer your question better," said Riatt, "if I understood a little more clearly what your connection with this whole situation is."
He was reckless and successful. Besides which he was understood to be personally attractive his picture in a silver frame stood on a neighboring table. He was of the lean type that Mrs. Almar admired. Now it was perfectly clear to her why he was asked. Mrs. Ussher adored Christine Fenimer. Of all girls in the world it was essential that Christine should marry money.
Riatt noticed that in spite of these chilling sentences, Fenimer was soon composing a paragraph for the press, and advocating the setting of the date for the wedding early in April, as he himself was booked for a fishing-trip later. He did this under the assumption that he was yielding to Riatt's irresistible eagerness. "You have an excellent advocate in Christine. My daughter has always ruled me.
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