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The thing was so wild and yet I could see that from their point of view it was the only thing to do. "Mrs. Abbott is not certain that she is going back to New York," I replied. "If she does go, it will not be with Mr. van Tuiver's money." "One thing more," said Dr. Perrin. It was the first time he had spoken since van Tuiver's incredible announcement. "I trust, Mrs.
I wondered if he didn't think she was picturesque, when she sat in a splendid, shining coach, and took part in a public parade through Central Park. But I did not say this. I went off, and swore my reporter to abstain from the "human touch," and he promised and kept his word. There appeared next morning a dignified "write-up" of Mrs. Douglas van Tuiver's interest in child-labour reform.
I remember trying to tell myself on the launch-trip that I was not in the least excited; and then, standing on the platform of the railroad station, saying: "How can you expect not to be excited, when even the railroad is excited?" "Will Mr. van Tuiver's train be on time?" I asked, of the agent. "'Specials' are not often delayed," he replied, "at least, not Mr. van Tuiver's."
Irritated as she was by the solemn snobberies of van Tuiver's world, it was none the less true that she believed in money; she believed in it with a faith which appalled me as I came to realise it. Everybody had to have money; the social graces, the aristocratic virtues were impossible without it. The rich needed it even the poor needed it!
Something of that sort was always happening something in each country to bewilder her afresh, and to make it necessary for her husband to remind her of the proprieties. In France, a cousin of van Tuiver's had married a marquis, and they had visited the chateau.
A couple of hours ago the acting-manager of Mr. van Tuiver's office had telephoned to ask if he might call upon a matter of importance. He had come. Naturally, he had the most extreme reluctance to say anything which might seem to criticise the activities of Mr. van Tuiver's wife, but there was something in the account in the newspapers which should be brought to her husband's attention.
I am the only person who is troubled with the problem of Sylvia's rights." I waited. "May I suggest, Mrs. Mrs. Abbott that the protection of Mrs. van Tuiver's rights can be safely left to her physicians and her husband?" "One would wish so, Mr. van Tuiver, but the medical books are full of evidence that women's rights frequently need other protection."
Tuis, you may remember a circumstance which your niece mentioned to me that just before her marriage she urged you to have certain inquiries made as to Mr. van Tuiver's health, his fitness for marriage?" Never shall I forget her face at that moment. "Sylvia told you that!" "The inquiries were made," I went on, "but not carefully enough, it seems. Now you behold the consequence of this negligence."
The breeze was feeble, and the sun was blazing hot, but nevertheless I made myself listen patiently for a while. They had said it all to me, over and over again; but it seemed that Dr. Perrin could not be satisfied until it had been said in Douglas van Tuiver's presence. "Dr. Perrin," I exclaimed, "even supposing we make the attempt to deceive her, we have not one plausible statement to make "
She begged me to go home with her, to visit her finally to come and live with her. Until recently an elderly companion, had posed as her aunt, and kept her respectable while she was upon van Tuiver's yacht, and at his castle in Scotland. But this companion had died, and now Claire had no one with whom to discuss her soul-states.
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