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Updated: May 15, 2025
Don't worry about your reputation. Fussing and fretting about your social position doesn't help toward a career." "Naturally, you take it coolly. But you can hardly expect me to," cried she. "You are taking it coolly," said he. "Then why try to work yourself up into a fit of hysterics? The thing is of no importance except that you're free now will never be bothered by Siddall again.
If Mildred had not been seeing more and more plainly that other and real personality of his, her contempt for him and for herself would have grown beyond control. But, with him or away from him, at every instant there was the sense of that other real William Siddall a shadowy menace full of terror.
General Siddall, after the manner of very rich men, could not conceive of anyone being less impressed with his superiority in any way than he himself was. For years he had heard only flatteries of himself his own voice singing his praises, the fawning voices of those he hired and of those hoping to get some financial advantage.
An automobile had just drawn up at the jeweler's door and General Siddall top-hat, sable-lined overcoat, waxed mustache and imperial, high-heeled boots, gold-mounted cane was descending. And she knew that he had awakened to his one oversight, and was on his way to repair it.
Mildred, somewhat quieter, but still mocking, said: "If I should decide to quit, would my expenses be paid back to where I was engaged? I fancy not." Harding looked grave. "If you had had money enough to pay your own expenses about, would you have married him?" said he. "Isn't he paying paying liberally, Mrs. Siddall for ALL he gets?"
"My daughter hardly touched her glasses," cried Mrs. Presbury. "I know that, ma'am," replied Siddall. "I watched her. If she'd done much drinking, I'd have been done, then and there." "I suspect she's upset by what you've been saying, General," said Presbury. "Wasn't it enough to upset a girl? You don't realize how magnificent you are how magnificent everything is here."
"To be a lady, Mr. Presbury would say," suggested Mildred. After some discussion, they fixed upon Joseph Tilker as the best available investigator of General Siddall. Tilker had been head clerk for Henry Gower. He was now in for himself and had offered to look after any legal business Mrs. Presbury might have without charging her.
Baird is about to sue her husband for a separation not for a divorce but for a separation and name you?" Mildred dropped limply back in her chair. "That means scandal," continued Siddall, "scandal touching my name my honor. I may say, I do not believe what Mrs. Baird charges. My men have had you under observation for several weeks. Also, Mrs. Brindley is, I learn, a woman of the highest character.
"Bill Siddall is a horror. His house is a horror. His dinner was a horror. These loathsome rich people! They're ruining the world as they always have. They're making it impossible for anyone to get good service or good food or good furniture or good clothing or good anything. They don't know good things, and they pay exorbitant prices for showy trash, for crude vulgar luxury. They corrupt taste.
She comes of good healthy stock." "I can't stand a sickly, ailing woman," said Siddall. "I wouldn't marry one, and if one I married turned out to be that kind, I'd make short work of her. When you get right down to facts, what is a woman? Why, a body. If she ain't pretty and well, she ain't nothing.
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