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How much doubt and anxiety, even suffering, might have been spared him if the historian at that moment could have informed him of a little shopping incident at Tiffany's a few days after the Mavicks' return. A middle-aged lady and a young girl were inspecting some antiques.
"Why, I forgot to tell you about it. It's the great excitement. Rivervale is getting known. The Mavicks are there. I hear they've taken pretty much the whole of it." "The Mavicks? "Yes, the New York Mavicks, that you wrote us about, that were in the paper." "How long have they been there?" "A week. There is Mrs.
Perhaps he will show us some of the interesting places and the beauties of the country he knows so well." And she looked sideways at Philip. "Yes, he knows the country," said Alice, without committing herself. "I am sure I shall be delighted to do what I can for you whenever you need my services," said Philip, who had reasons for wishing to know the Mavicks which Alice did not share.
Her activity, spirit, and affability quite won the regard of the society reporters, and those who know Newport only through the newspapers would have concluded that the Mavicks were on the top of the wave.
And Philip talked about himself, and the rumors in Wall Street, and Mr. Ault and his offer, and at last about the Mavicks he could not help that until he felt that Celia was what she had always been to him, and when he went away he held her hand and said what a dear, sweet friend she was.
In speaking of it he used the vulgar term "splurge," a word especially offensive to the refined society in which the Mavicks had gained a foothold. And yet the word was on the lips of a great many men on the Street. The shifting application of sympathy is a very queer thing in this world. Mr. Ault was not a snob. Whatever else he was, he made few pretensions.
"Why, I forgot to tell you about it. It's the great excitement. Rivervale is getting known. The Mavicks are there. I hear they've taken pretty much the whole of it." "The Mavicks? "Yes, the New York Mavicks, that you wrote us about, that were in the paper." "How long have they been there?" "A week. There is Mrs.
Unconsciously this was so. For at this time Philip had not come to know that the reason why so many degraded and degrading stories and sketches are written is because the writers' standard is the approval of one or two or a group of persons of vitiated tastes and low ideals. The Mavicks did not return to town till late in the autumn.
At a dinner given by the lady who had been Philip's only partner at the Mavick reception, and who had read his story and had written to "her partner" a most kind little note regretting that she had not known she was dancing with an author, and saying that she and her husband would be delighted to make his acquaintance, Philip was surprised by the presence of the Mavicks in the drawing-room.
When Ault told his wife what he had done, that sweet, domestic, and sensible woman was very far from being elated. "I am almost sorry," she said. "Sorry for what?" asked Mr. Ault, gently, but greatly surprised. "For the Mavicks. I don't mean for Mrs. Mavick I hear she is a worldly and revengeful woman but for the girl. It must be dreadful to turn her out of all the surroundings of her happy life.
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