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There was a deathly chill in such security. She turned to Fulmer. "And Grace?" He beamed back without sign of embarrassment. "Oh, she's here, naturally we're in Paris, kids and all. In a pension, where we can polish up the lingo.
Fulmer were engaged to dine in Paris. They left an hour ago. Mrs. Melrose told me she'd told you," the house-keeper wailed. Susy kept her little fixed smile. "I must have misunderstood. In that case... well, yes, if it's no trouble, I believe I will have my tray upstairs." Slowly she turned, and followed the housekeeper up into the dread solitude she had just left.
As the party, after dinner, drifted from the restaurant back into the hall, she caught, in the smiles and hand-pressures crowding about her, the scarcely-repressed hint of official congratulations; and Violet Melrose, seated in a corner with Fulmer, drew her down with a wan jade-circled arm, to whisper tenderly: "It's most awfully clever of you, darling, not to be wearing any jewels."
Of course he has talent: I saw that long before Violet had ever heard of him. Have you never heard Grace play the violin? Poor Violet, as usual, is off on the wrong tack. I've given Fulmer my garden-house to do no doubt Violet told you because I wanted to help him. But Grace is my discovery, and I'm determined to make her known, and to have every one understand that she is the genius of the two.
"You mustn't believe a word that Ursula Gillow tells you about having pounced on his 'Spring Snow Storm' in a dark corner of the American Artists' exhibition skied, if you please! They skied him less than a year ago! And naturally Ursula never in her life looked higher than the first line at a picture-show. And now she actually pretends... oh, for pity's sake don't say it doesn't matter, Fulmer!
They were silent for a while; then he began again: "You said it yourself yesterday, you know." She strayed back from sunlit distances. "Yesterday?" "Yes: that Grace Fulmer says you can't separate two people who've been through a lot of things " "Ah, been through them together it's not the things, you see, it's the togetherness," she interrupted. "The togetherness that's it!"
Yet even Grace Fulmer had succumbed to Ursula's offer, and had arrived at Ruan the day before Susy left, instead of going to Spain with her husband and Violet Melrose. But then Grace was making the sacrifice for her children, and somehow one had the feeling that in giving up her liberty she was not surrendering a tittle of herself. All the difference was there.... "How I do bore you!"
Oh the relief of being able to say that, gaily, firmly and even truthfully! Take charge of the Fulmer children, indeed! Susy remembered how Nick and she had fled from them that autumn afternoon in New Hampshire.
Melrose clutched her cavernous temples in her attenuated hands. "Of course, of course! I had meant to go to China no, India.... But I've discovered a genius... and Genius, you know...." Unable to complete her thought, she sank down upon a pillowy divan, stretched out an arm, cried: "Fulmer!
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