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In a day or two there came a reporter, saying he had noticed her name. Was it true that she had become interested in our work? Would I please give him some particulars, as the public would naturally want to know. I admitted that Mrs. van Tuiver had joined the committee; she approved of our work and desired to further it. That was all. He asked: Would she give an interview?
There were occasional items in the papers, their yacht, the "Triton," had reached the Azores; it had run into a tender in the harbour of Gibraltar; Mr. and Mrs. van Tuiver had received the honour of presentation at the Vatican; they were spending the season in London, and had been presented at court; they had been royal guests at the German army-manoeuvres.
But I had maintained all my life the right of woman to know the truth, and was I to back down now, at the first test of my convictions? When the news reached Douglas van Tuiver that his wife had been informed of the infant's blindness, there came a telegram saying that he was coming.
"Has Mrs. van Tuiver herself any idea of this situation?" "None whatever. On the contrary, she was assured before her marriage that no such possibility existed." Again I felt him looking through me, but I left him to make what he could of my information.
If you had not meddled in the beginning " "Now, now!" said the other, soothingly. "You ask me to relieve you of the embarrassment of this matter. I quite agree with Mrs. Abbott that there is too much ignorance about these things, but she must recognise, I am sure, that this is not the proper moment for enlightening Mrs. van Tuiver." "I do not recognise it at all," I said.
Frothingham had come forward, evidently intending to speak. "What is this, Ferris?" he demanded of the chauffeur. "I'm not sure, sir," said the man. "I think it's a Socialist meeting." "A Socialist meeting?" said van Tuiver; then, to his wife: "You don't want to stay for that!" Again Sylvia astonished me. "I'd like to very much," she answered simply. He made no reply.
When van Tuiver went to the cradle, she hurried to his side, and sought to awaken the little one with gentle nudges. Quite unexpectedly to her, van Tuiver sought to pick up the infant; she helped him, and he stood, holding it awkwardly, as if afraid it might go to pieces in his arms.
This principle, which explains the "opportunism" of Socialist cabinet-ministers and Labour M.P.s may be used to account for the sudden resolve which I had taken, that for this afternoon at least Mrs. Douglas van Tuiver should not discover that I was either a divorced woman, or a soap-box orator of the revolution.
They had brought home a young one, which screamed all day to be stuffed with fish. A cousin of Sylvia's, Harley Chilton, had come to visit her. He had taken van Tuiver on hunting-trips during the latter's courtship days, and now was a good fishing-companion.
But now the combination of Veblen and myself had helped her to realize what it meant. Douglas van Tuiver spent his money upon a definite system: whatever went to the maintaining of his social position, whatever added to the glory, prestige and power of the van Tuiver name that money was well-spent; while money spent to any other end was money wasted and this included all ideas and "causes."
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