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The Pasmers are the dullest and most selfish people in the world." "Oh, I don't think that's her character," said Miss Cotton, ruffling her feathers defensively. "Neither do I. She has no fixed character. No girl has. Nobody has. We all have twenty different characters more characters than gowns and we put them on and take them off just as often for different occasions.
If there are elder sisters who have been accustomed to regard their brother as very young, he will seem all the younger because in such a matter he has treated himself as if he were a man; and Eunice Mavering said, after seeing the Pasmers, "Well, Dan, it's all well enough, I suppose, but it seems too ridiculous." "What's ridiculous about it, I should like to know?" he demanded.
She did not ask specifically after the Pasmers; but that might have been because of the sort of break in her friendship with Alice after that night at the Trevors'; she did not ask specifically after Mrs. Brinkley or any of the others. At Mrs.
She wished him to be happy, somehow; she would have done anything for him; she wished she knew what to do. Ought she to tell him the Pasmers were there? Ought she to make up some excuse and get him away before he met them? She felt herself getting more and more bewildered and helpless.
He thought himself great friends with them; he dined and lunched with them; and they knew the Pasmers, and all about his engagement. But he did not go to any of them now, with the need he felt to impart his calamity, to get the support of come other's credence and opinion of it.
"I suppose we shall see the Pasmers and young Mavering here to-night." Mrs. Brinkley turned and looked sharply at him. "You've heard of the engagement?" he asked. "No, decidedly, I haven't. And after his flight from Campobello it's the last thing I expected to hear of. When did it come out?" "Only within a few days. They've been keeping it rather quiet. Mrs. Pasmer told me herself." Mrs.
"Well," she said at the end, "he's a sweet young fellow. I hope he likes his Pasmers." "I guess there's no doubt about his liking one of them the principal one." "Yes, if she is the principal one." There was an implication in everything she said that Dan Mavering had been hoodwinked by Mrs. Pasmer. Mature ladies always like to imply something of the sort in these cases.
"She has always felt so badly about Miss Anderson!" Mrs. Brinkley saw that Mrs. Pasmer wished to confine the meaning of their talk to Miss Anderson, and she assented, with a penetration of which she saw that Mrs. Pasmer was gratefully aware. She grew more tolerant of both the Pasmers as the danger of greater intimacy from them, which seemed to threaten at first seemed to pass away.
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