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"Cruel, my dear," cried Nancy. "Oh, I'm sure you weren't that," and then intoxicated by her own success, she made her first tactical error. She turned to Riatt and said: "Don't forget that you are dining with me on Wednesday evening." She enjoyed this exhibition of power. She saw Laura and Christine glance at each other.
"Oh, well, she doesn't look as brilliant as she did when you were with her. But isn't that natural? I wonder why Nancy asked Lee Linburne and where is that silly little wife of his. Oh, don't go, Max. It's only the St. Anna attaché; we met him on the coast last summer." But Riatt insisted on making way for the South American diplomat, who was standing courteously in the back of the box.
Fenimer went on easily, "come, you know, a man really can't go off in the casual way you did and expect to find everything just as he likes when he comes back. I have a word to say to you myself. Shall we walk as far as the corner together?" To receive his dismissal from Mr. Fenimer was something that Riatt had never contemplated.
The afternoon was turning out so perversely that she would hardly have been surprised to find that the house had disappeared from its accustomed place. But as they came over the crest, there it was, in a hollow between two hills, looking as summer houses do in winter, like a forlorn toy left out in the snow. "But it's shut up," said Riatt. "There's no one in it."
Strange to say my motive is altruistic so altruistic that I feel I should sign myself 'Pro Bono Publico, instead of Nancy Almar. There is no one down here in the drawing-room at the moment." Riatt's room. She did not have long to wait. Riatt, with all the satisfaction in his bearing of one who has just bathed, shaved and eaten, came down to her at once.
It's a great art. I'm afraid I shall never learn it." For the first time, Riatt found himself looking at her with a certain amount of genuine admiration. This was very straight fighting. "They have the piratical virtues," he thought, "courage, and the ability to give and take hard blows." Mrs. Almar was not to be outdone. "Well," she said, "I may as well be honest.
He was as impassive as a hunted animal who, in some terrible danger, pretends to be already dead. It was a matter of only a few seconds. Then she dropped her arms, and he went away. Running away is seldom a becoming gesture, yet it is one that should at least bring relief; but as Riatt went westward, he was conscious of no relief whatsoever.
How selfish I am," answered Miss Fenimer. "The point is this. In view of the gossip and talk, and your own dear little suggestion, darling, that I had frightened the horse on purpose, Mr. Riatt has thought it necessary to ask me to marry him. I say he has thought it necessary, because in spite of all his flattering protestations, I can't help feeling that he's done it from a sense of duty.
Yes, I assure you, Riatt, lots of these women who can't put down one of their motors without having nervous prostration will pillory Christine for breaking her engagement, unless " he paused. "I don't follow your idea, Ned." Hickson sighed.
"If I had said it then you wouldn't have believed me." He looked at her; it was true. "But now," she went on rapidly, "you must believe me. If I come now to live with you and work for you, no one can accuse me of mercenary motives not even you, Max. I shan't get anything from the bargain but you, and that is all I want." "This is madness," said Riatt, trying not very sincerely to free himself.
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