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She was a professional in the grain and yet in this adventure she would be under the curse of an amateur's status, a thing she hated as all professionals do. It was evidently from an instinct to cut herself off as completely as possible from these social connections of hers that she rented for the summer, a furnished house in the village of Ravinia, within a mile or so of the park.
For that one glaring instant before he had had time to turn his face away he had known what she meant. But he never would look again. Never would know. Ravinia is one of Chicago's idiosyncrasies, a ten-weeks' summer season of grand opera with a full symphony orchestra given practically out-of-doors.
What she needed was a nurse and a doctor and he meant to provide both within the next few hours. He then compromised by saying that the nurse he had in mind was for the moment Aunt Lucile and the doctor their father. Pete would get back with her by three at the latest. Rush then had a long talk by telephone with his father at Ravinia.
But he was smitten now with the memory of his own refusal to go to Ravinia so that Paula would remember him again. He blurted out something of his contrition over this but she stopped him. "It was only because I wanted you there. I would not for any conceivable advantage in the world have let you oh, even touch these devices that I've been concerned with. But I've reveled in them myself.
I got a note from Paula this morning written yesterday, asking where my translation was, but not telling me anything. And as she wasn't at home when I telephoned to answer her question I didn't know until to-night. "But about six o'clock James Wallace telephoned from the park and told me all about it. He wanted you found and sent to Ravinia at once.
But Mary by the second or third repetition began reading an important significance into it. Paula in her instinctive fashion was beginning to weigh alternatives, one life against the other, a thing it wasn't likely she had ever attempted before. There was a tension between John and Paula which Mary saw mounting daily over the question of his next visit to Ravinia.
There was no real reason for thinking that she would find March at the end of it. Week-end visits usually ended Monday morning, and it was probable that he would have gone hours before she arrived. She was conscious now of having commanded herself not to be silly when she was fretting over the late start from Ravinia and Paula's errand in town. It would be nice to see him again!
In doing them for you, even though I could not see that they were getting anywhere. "Everything seemed quite at a standstill when I left Ravinia Thursday, but on Thursday night the Williamsons dined with Mr. Eckstein and went to the park with him; and they all went home with father and Paula afterward, Fournier and LaChaise, too; and everything happened at once.
Anthony March might deny as much as he pleased that he was "enough of an Olympian to laugh" at life's ironies, but it remained true that his God had a sense of humor and that March himself appreciated it. It was about four o'clock on Sunday afternoon that he came to Paula's cottage at Ravinia to get the score to The Outcry.
Of course this summer out at Hickory Hill is so much to the good. And if he can get sufficiently interested to stay there the year round, why, there's no knowing. The investment in that farm may prove the wisest one he ever made." "If it were only possible," she was quoting what her father had said to her the other night at Ravinia, "for him to be whole-heartedly there!
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