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"I'm afraid I don't, seeing how joyously you do it. I've been watching you. You two dance well together. Kinroy, won't you have them bring us ices?" Suzanne had slipped away to the side of her brother's friends. She talked to them cheerily the while Eugene watched her, but she was intensely conscious of his presence and charm.
I am quite alone apart from you and Kinroy and the children" she referred to Adele and Ninette as the children when talking to either Suzanne or Kinroy "and I didn't want to say anything to them. You have been my only confidant up to now, and since you have turned against me " "I haven't turned against you, mama." "Oh, yes you have. Let's not talk about it, Suzanne. You have broken my heart.
The two youngest of her girls were in a fashionable boarding school at Tarrytown; the boy, Kinroy, was preparing for Harvard; Suzanne, the eldest, was at home, fresh from boarding school experiences, beginning to go out socially. Her début had already been made.
Kinroy had a sincere affection for his sisters, particularly Suzanne and Adele, and he wanted to protect all of them. He decided in a pompous, ultra chivalrous spirit that he must help his mother plan, and together they talked of chloroforming her some night, of carrying her thus, as a sick girl, in a private car to Maine or the Adirondacks or somewhere in Canada.
Where is your love for me and for them? Oh, I have been so afraid that Kinroy might hear something of this. He would go and kill him. I know he would. I couldn't prevent it. Oh, the shame, the scandal, the wreck, it would involve us all in. Have you no conscience, Suzanne; no heart?" Suzanne stared before her calmly. The thought of Kinroy moved her a little.
"You hush, Kinroy," replied Suzanne. "I don't care to talk to you. You have lied to me, and that is more than I ever did to you. Mama, I am astonished at you," she returned to her mother. "My mother lying to me! Very well, mama. You have things in your hands today. I will have them in mine later. You have taken just the wrong course. Now you wait and see." Mrs. Dale winced and quailed.
I lied that once, but I was frantic. Oh, Suzanne, please, please. Be reasonable. Have some consideration. I will take you back, but wait for some clothes to arrive. We can't go this way." She sent Kinroy for the station master, to whom was explained the need of a carriage to take them to Mont Cecile and also for a doctor this was Mrs.
Dale's spirit fairly raged, but it was impotent in the presence of this her daughter. She could do nothing. Still more hours, and at one small town Suzanne decided to get off, but both Mrs. Dale and Kinroy offered actual physical opposition. They felt intensely silly and ashamed, though, for they could not break the spirit of the girl.
He has the next with me." Eugene looked at her brother almost angrily. Why should circumstances rob him of her company in this way? Kinroy looked like her he was very handsome for a boy. "Well, then, I have to give you up. I wish there were more." He left her only to wait impatiently for the sixth and the tenth.
Only a travelling bag was packed, and Suzanne went willingly enough into the auto and the train, only stipulating one thing that she be allowed to call up Eugene and explain. Both Kinroy and her mother objected, but, when finally she refused flatly to go without, they acceded. She called him up at the office it was four o'clock in the afternoon, and they were leaving at five-thirty and told him.
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