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John, Orpen, Tonks, she bought them with vigour. Artistic circles began to revolve about her. Very rapidly she was in possession.... And among other desirable things she had, it seemed, pounced upon and captured Lady Marayne. At any rate it was clear that that awful hostile silence and aloofness was to end. Benham never quite mastered how it was done.
Here is a woman who is kind to you. She's fond of you. I could tell she's fond of you directly I heard her. And you amuse yourself with her. And then it's Gobble, Gobble, Gobble, Great Work, Hands Clear, Big Business of the World. Why couldn't you think of that before, Poff? Why did you begin with her?" "It was unexpected...." "STUFF!" said Lady Marayne for a second time. "Well," she said, "well.
But this time it was a lucky question. "Prothero mopped up the lot of us at Minchinghampton with his diving and swimming," Benham explained, and the tension was relaxed. Lady Marayne spoke of her own swimming, and became daring and amusing at her difficulties with local feeling when first she swam in the pond.
What stupid things we human beings are!" Her philosophical moments were perhaps the most baffling of all. Billy Prothero became the symbol in the mind of Lady Marayne for all that disappointed her in Benham. He had to become the symbol, because she could not think of complicated or abstract things, she had to make things personal, and he was the only personality available.
His intentness amused observant people. The drama that did not profess to be intellectual he went to with Lady Marayne, and usually on first nights. Lady Marayne loved a big first night at St. James's Theatre or His Majesty's. Afterwards, perhaps, Sir Godfrey would join them at a supper party, and all sorts of clever and amusing people would be there saying keen intimate things about each other.
If you divided all the property up between everybody, you'd have rich and poor again in a year." Billy perceived no way of explaining away this version of his Socialism that would not involve uncivil contradictions and nobody ever contradicted Lady Marayne. "But, Lady Marayne, don't you think there is a lot of disorder and injustice in the world?" he protested.
It made Prothero none the less indignant with this, that there was indeed a grain of truth in it. He hated superiors, he felt for inferiors. At last came the hour of tipping. An embarrassed and miserable Prothero went slinking about the house distributing unexpected gold. It was stupid, it was damnable; he had had to borrow the money from his mother.... Lady Marayne felt he had escaped her.
"Amanda seems to like that dark boy, Poff; what is his name? Sir Philip Easton?" said Lady Marayne. Benham looked at her with a slightly hostile intelligence, and said nothing. "When a man takes a wife, he has to keep her," said Lady Marayne. "No," said Benham after consideration. "I don't intend to be a wife-herd." "What?" "Wife-herd same as goat-herd."
But speaking with some special knowledge, I should say that on the whole the people who are on the top of things OUGHT to be on the top of things. I agree with Aristotle that there is such a thing as a natural inferior." "So far as I can understand Mr. Prothero," said Lady Marayne, "he thinks that all the inferiors are the superiors and all the superiors inferior. It's quite simple...."
It was, in a cumbersome way, luxurious. But the waste of life of it, the servants, the observances, all concentrated on the mere detail of existence? There came a rap at the door. Benham appeared, wearing an expensive-looking dressing-jacket which Lady Marayne had bought for him. He asked if he might talk for a bit and smoke.
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