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Bragdon, at least, knew what he hoped for, impossible as it might be, a total escape from the debauching work he was doing. Milly hoped vaguely for a pleasanter apartment and an easier way of living, more friends and more good times with them. One of the first familiar faces Milly met in the bewildering new city was Marion Reddon's.
A few were said to exist in America, chiefly in New York hotels, but their handiwork was not up to Milly's standard and their demands for wages were exorbitant. Also real chic French dames des comptoirs were exceedingly rare. Jeanne's Grenoble sister-in-law proved to be, in Reddon's words, "so infernally homely that she would scare the customers from the door."
Milly had a faculty of getting some results even from such unpromising material as Marion Reddon's sullen Swede. She knew very well how food should be cooked and served, how gentlefolk were in the habit of taking their food as a delightful occasion as well as a chance to appease hunger, and she always insisted upon some sort of form.
Milly thought there might be something in Marion Reddon's ideas about men, after all. After much debate Milly resolved to take a leaf from Marion Reddon's philosophy and not let her "condition" make any difference in her husband's plans; they should not give up the trip to Italy because of possible dangers or discomforts to her.
With the blunted sense of fine proprieties characteristic of their sex, they approved unreservedly of Milly's new marriage. In Reddon's frank phrase it was "an extraordinary fit." "You two are complements which is more than one can say of most regular marriages."
Then, suddenly, the scales began to fall from Madame Reddon's eyes. The promised meeting with Marie Louise Lespinasse and her mysterious representative, "Mr.
"May the devil bestow upon him five hundred million toothaches!" exclaims Lapierre, for the first time showing any sign of animation. The other letters were read in their order, interspersed with Madame Reddon's explanations of their effect upon the heirs in France. His description of the elevators of steel and of the house that covered an entire block had caused a veritable sensation.
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