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But I don't see the fun of having them jumped at one." "He does, apparently, unless it's really Charmian." "The girl? She's not bad. Wants to be much cleverer than she is, of course, like pretty nearly all the girls, except the sporting lot; but not bad." "Jimmy" Mrs. Shiffney's eyes began once more to look audacious "shall I ask Charmian Mansfield to come on the yacht?"
"Would you rather he remained obscure and entirely yours?" a voice seemed to say within her. She did not debate this question, but again turned, made her way to Mrs. Shiffney's box, which she located rightly this time, pushed the door and abruptly went into it. "Hulloh!" said a powerful and rather surprised voice.
Here and there the figure of an Arab was visible sauntering slowly among the trees, with the smoke of his cigarette dispersing above him. Some young Jews went by, holding hands, laughing and talking. They sent glances of hard inquiry at Mrs. Shiffney's broad figure from their too intelligent eyes. Soon their thin forms vanished among the gray trunks. "Shall we sit there?" asked Claude.
Shiffney's musical passion for Sennier often led her to embroider facts. "Among the people who matter in Paris he was quite famous." "Oh, I didn't know that," said Susan, without a trace of doubt or of sarcasm. "How could you? Besides, Sennier is a great man, the only man we have, in fact. So you were going to stay with the Heaths?" "I am going. I promised Charmian Heath." "When?"
At this point in the conversation Charmian tranquilly interposed. "Mr. Heath," she said, slightly protruding her chin, "when you've done with my only mother" Mrs. Shiffney's lips tightened ever so little "I want you to be very nice to me." "Please tell me," said Heath, with the almost anxious eagerness that seemed to be characteristic of him. Mrs.
"Francis Thompson's The Hound of Heaven." Jacob Crayford what would he think of that sort of thing? "You know it, don't you?" Claude said, as she was silent. "I've read it, but quite a while ago. I don't remember it well. Of course I know it's very wonderful. Madre loves it." "She was speaking of it at the Shiffney's the other night. That's why it occurred to me to study it." "Oh.
Shiffney seldom entertained on a very large scale. "One bore, or one frump, can ruin a party," was a favorite saying of hers. But even she, now and then, condescended to "clear people off." Charmian realized that Adelaide was making a clearance to-night. Since her marriage with Claude she had not been invited to No. 14 B Mrs. Shiffney's number in the Square before.
There's that pie, and we can have a bottle of champagne to drink success to the studio, if we want it." "And Mrs. Shiffney's given up?" "We can see how we feel. She only asked us for eleven. We can easily dress and go, it we want to." So it was settled. As Claude had not yet begun to work he took a long and solitary walk in the afternoon.
And through it all Charmian watched the ugly white face of the red-haired woman opposite to her, lived imaginatively in that woman's heart and brain, admired her, almost hated her, longed to be what she was. Between the acts she saw men pouring into Mrs. Shiffney's box.
"At Adelaide Shiffney's the other night Susan Fleet introduced me to a Miss Gretch. I believe she sometimes writes, for papers or something. I had a little talk with her while I was waiting for Susan to come back." "Did you tell her about the studio?" "Let me see! Did I? Yes, I believe I did say something. You see, Claude, it was the night of " "I know it was. But how could you ?"
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