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Staggchase dipped his long fingers into his finger bowl, wiped them with great deliberation and then pushed his chair back from the table. It was very seldom that his wife denied a request he made her, but when she did he knew better than to contend in the matter. "Very well," he said, "you may do whatever you please.
Staggchase said, "he may read the memorandum of the matter about which we wished to consult Mr. Fenton." "The charge against Mr. Fenton," the Secretary responded, with deliberate insolence, "is that on the evening of March 13th he brought Mr.
That wouldn't be a bad scheme," her husband returned, with an appreciative grin. "But, really now, what are you going to do about this girl. She's a sort of cousin, you know, and she's a great friend of the Livingstons." "We might ask her to come here after she gets through with that woman. I'll write her if you like." "Without calling?" Mr. Staggchase asked, lifting his eyebrows a little.
Staggchase began; and then he added: "I can't say that I blame him so very much, though. I don't fancy I should be very amiable myself if I were brought up on the word of one of the servants." "But it was the duty of the servant to inform me," the Secretary returned doggedly, "and why shouldn't the committee take action on information which comes to it that way as well as any other.
Staggchase, on her way out of the hall a little later, stopped and spoke to her. "Come, Bee, it is time for you to go home. You don't seem to profit by the godly example of Elsie Wilson at all." "Heaven forbid that I should take her as my exemplar!" Berenice flung back with unnecessary fervor. "Well," Mrs.
Staggchase, opened the case by saying in an offhand manner, that they were all very sorry for the turn things had taken, but that the evil of having strangers introduced into the club had grown to proportions which made it impossible longer to overlook it, and that this was especially true of the bringing into the house men who not only were there in violation of the rules, but who were of a character which made it more than a violation of good taste to introduce them into the club at all.
Staggchase had been conciliatory and gracious, and showed so distinct a leaning toward the accused, that the Secretary felt himself to be personally attacked in this slighting way of holding charges which he had given. He drew his thin lips together and cleared his throat in a preparatory cough, rustling his papers as if to call attention to them. "If the Secretary is ready," Mr.
Wynne said good-by absently, and went on his way down the hill like a man in a dream. "Well," Mrs. Staggchase said, "you have seen one of Boston's ethical debauches; what do you think of it?" "It was confusing," he returned. "I couldn't make out what it was for." "For? To amuse us.
Staggchase paid to her husband all her tithes of mint and anise and cumin, and she even sometimes presented him with a propitiatory offering in excess of her strict debt; only such a gift was always set down in her mental record as a gift and not as a tribute. "This Stanton is an awful lout, Fred," she observed.
"But if that is a model fashion of living, what becomes of the old notions of kindred souls, and all that sort of thing?" he asked. "I shouldn't want my wife" He paused, rather awkwardly, and Mrs. Staggchase took up the sentence with a smile of amusement, in which there was no trace of annoyance.
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