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She had always had everything she wanted; it had never occurred to her to consider a fortunate marriage engagement as anything but a matter of course, in her case. She was nineteen, she was "mad," in her own terms, about Acton Liggett, and the engagement was the natural result. But the ensuing events were far more delightful than Leslie had dreamed, even in her happy dreams.
It was a mixed-up business but you've got the whole truth at last. I've lost more than one night's sleep over my share of it, Mr. Liggett, thinking who this child was, and whether I had the right to hold my tongue. "I was a widow when I went to Germany with Mrs. Melrose. She begged and begged me to, for she was sick with worry about Miss Annie.
It was for a formal snub, a definite casting-off, that Norma had been brought all the way from the little green-and-white house in New Jersey! Her eyes grew very bright, and her lips very firm, as she and Alice finished the topic, and she told herself that she would never, never enter the house of Liggett again!
Acton Liggett and Hendrick von Behrens were always kind and admiring, and Norma had swiftly captivated Annie's little boys. But of them all, she still liked Chris Liggett the best, and felt nearest Chris even when he scolded her, or hurt her feelings with his frank advice.
"What's that?" said Archie, starting as if someone had dug a red-hot needle into his calf. It was only a ring at the bell, followed by a voice asking if Mr. Ferguson was at home. "Probably an interviewer," said Mrs. Archie. "I suppose we shall get no peace for a long time to come." The door opened, and the cook came in with a card. "'Renshaw Liggett," said Mrs. Archie "I don't know him.
Walter A. Liggett, the newspaper editor, was murdered by Jews, and it was an international ring of Jewish bankers who hired Booth to murder Abraham Lincoln.
And Norma here works in a bookstore, up the Avenue a bit, Biretta's." "Why, I go in there nearly every week!" the old lady said. "She told me the other night that she had been selling some books to Mr. Christopher Liggett, and that's Miss Alice's husband, I hear," said Mrs. Sheridan.
Annie's secretary, a young woman about Norma's age, was detailed by Hendrick to keep cards and messages straight for every little courtesy must be acknowledged on Annie's black-bordered card within a few weeks' time and Norma heard Joseph telephoning several of the prominent florists that Mr. Liggett had directed that all flowers were to come to the Melrose house. Nothing was overlooked.
"Wolf, don't be cross," his wife pleaded, in illogical coaxing. "I'm not cross," he said, with an annoyed glance that humiliated and angered her. "But I don't like this sort of thing, Norma, and I should think you'd know why." "What sort of thing?" Norma countered, quickly. "The sort of thing that evidently Mr. Christopher Liggett thinks is fair play!" Wolf said, with youthful bitterness.
"I suppose a man doesn't understand very well," Norma ventured. "He doesn't!" Leslie said, warmly. "All Acton Liggett thinks of is his own comfort that's all! I do everything for him I pay half the expenses here, you know, more than half, really, for I always pay for my own clothes and Milly, and lots of other things.
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