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Updated: June 26, 2025
O'Valley came like a regular " "Don't you think you ought to get to bed?" Mary changed the subject. "Sleep in the room next to mine if you like." "When are you coming upstairs?" "Soon. I want to look over the letters." Luke rose and pretended a nonchalant stretching. "Are you going to the office right away?" "Not until New Year's."
Anyway, I'd rather have a good time for a few years and then die than to live to be a hundred and never have an honest-to-goodness party. Wouldn't you?" "You're foolish to-day. If you only wouldn't wear such low-cut waists and talk to the men! Mr. O'Valley has noticed it." "I can get another job and another boarding house," Trudy began, defiantly. "You wouldn't last out at either.
Trudy was unable to keep her fingers out of the pie. She found herself naturally gravitating over to see Beatrice. Ostensibly she wanted to display her new ring and talk about Gay's luck and the daring gypsy embroideries he had just received from New York but really to tell her Steve O'Valley, supposedly enslaved cave man, loved another and a plainer woman than her own gorgeous self.
She laughed so genuinely that Beatrice told herself that Trudy was an unpardonable little fool. "I have stayed at the post for some time, and now that I've the chance to change my recreation to fabrics I'm tempted to try it. I'm sure you do understand and it is with great regret that I leave the office." "It will make it hard for Mr. O'Valley," Beatrice continued, blandly.
Steve O'Valley was standing beside her. "You look as if work agreed with you. Say something nice now that a long holiday has improved me!" She managed to put a shaking hand into his, wondering if she betrayed her thoughts.
Most important of all was the fact that when she was about to go to the French finishing school she had told Steve O'Valley that if he did not come to her farewell party she would be quite hurt. She felt he did not appreciate the honour in having been asked. Steve, who would have lain down and let her walk over him roughshod, said simply: "But I'm poor. I'm not in a position to meet your friends."
O'Valley found his hat and the neglected business portfolio and took his leave. To keep down the rising tide of overweight Beatrice abandoned the occult method of having a good time and turned her interest to new creeds containing continual bogus joy and a denial of the vicarious theory of life.
"Of course I have realized what an unusual man my husband is his phenomenal rise and all that; and papa has always said he never met any one who was so keen as Steve. I have always tried to be diplomatic in whatever I said to Mr. O'Valley about his business; I never encourage his discussing it at home since it is not fair to ask him to drag it into his playtime.
The shock was so great that she could not squeeze out a single tear. Mary Faithful felt no regrets at having told the truth about her love for Steve O'Valley. The regrets were all on Steve's side of the ledger.
Faithful's funeral was the day that Beatrice O'Valley had arranged to introduce Trudy Vondeplosshe to her bridge club, the members of which were keen to see Gay's wife in order to prove whether or not Bea's report concerning her was correct that she was a clever young person quite capable of taking care of both her own and Gay's futures. Beatrice particularly looked forward to the afternoon.
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