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Norma went to her room, too, but she sat dreaming before the mirror, thinking of that Melrose house, and of Leslie's friendliness, until Rose came in at eleven o'clock. At almost this same moment Norma's self was the subject of a rather unusual talk between Christopher Liggett and his wife.
Something in Norma's face told Betty that she would like to speak to her alone, so half an hour later when the girls had dispersed for the night, she made a bent nail file an excuse to go to the Guerins' room. "I was hoping you'd come, Betty," said Norma gratefully. "We have to put out the lights at ten, don't we? I'll try to talk fast. You see, Alice and I want to tell you something."
Now and then they caught the syllables of Norma's name, and once she said "Kate!" so sharply that everyone in the sick chamber started. Norma, leaning back in a great chair by the bed, mused and pondered as the slow hours went by. The softened lights touched the nurses' crisp aprons, the fire was out now, and only the two softly palpitating disks from the shaded lamps dimly illumined the room.
"Isn't !" she whispered at last, incredulous and bewildered. "No, dear. Poor Annie ! No, no, no; Norma's mother is dead. But but you must believe that Mama is acting as she believes to be for the best," she interrupted herself, in painful and hesitating tones, "and that I can't talk about it now, Alice; I can't, indeed! Some day "
So you must have listened often to Ethel and myself as we privately talked. Have you then no shame to be thus so small so contemptible?" "No, I haven't. Elsie's attempt to brazen things out ended almost as soon as it began. Her guilty, shifting gaze had come to rest on Norma's grave, sweet face. It wore an expression of wondering pity. Elsie turned and bolted straight for her couch bed.
It was all thrilling exhilarating wonderful! Norma's heart thumped delightfully as the big motor-cars turned into Broadway and took their place in the slowly moving line. She pressed her radiant face close to the window; snow was fluttering softly down in the darkness, and men were pushing it from the sidewalks, and shouting in the night.
She darkly surmised that Marian intended somehow to make trouble for Judith Stearns and Norma about the last year's affair of the stolen gown. Once she had been ready to believe Marian's assertion that Judith had been guilty of theft. She was not nearly so ready now to believe it. As for Norma! Elsie could still see Norma's sweet face, with its gentle blue eyes pityingly bent on her.
"No," she said, briefly and quietly. Rose's face was full of distress. Again she reached for Norma's fingers. "Dearest I'm so sorry! But but it doesn't make you feel very badly, does it, Norma?" Norma did not answer. "Ah, it does!" Rose said, pitifully. "Are you so sure you care?" At this Norma laughed, glanced for a moment into far space, shook her head.
Alice noticed nothing, and in a day or two Chris could easily have convinced himself that the conversation in the spring greenness of the Sunday morning had been a dream. However, that hour had borne fruit, and in two separate ways had had its distinct effect upon Norma's mind and soul.
Before leaving her home, Adalgisa, ignorant of the connection between Norma and Pollio, reveals her secret to the priestess, and begs for absolution from her vows. At the news of her husband's faithlessness Norma's fury breaks forth, and her indignation is equalled by that of Adalgisa, who is furious at finding herself the mere plaything of a profligate.
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