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Updated: June 8, 2025
"I've arranged for servants, of course," he said. "I think dinner is nearly ready.... The table wasn't set for maiden-aunts " "The long summer's work together " she said, in an awed voice. "But first, our dinner together you and I here oh, Vina!" "... But, David,... you said dinner first!"
Whereas I cannot endure to go unbuttoned or untied; my neighbouring labourers would think themselves in chains, if they were so braced. "Nudaque consistunt, formam servantia testae, Vina; nec hausta meri, sed data frusta, bibunt."
Two days later Beth answered a 'phone call from David Cairns.... He was just back from Nantucket ... for a few days.... Very grateful to find her in.... Yes, Vina had come over, too. Beth was instantly animate. Vina had planned to be gone a month at least. "I'd like to come over alone first may I, Beth?" Cairns asked. "Yes." "Within a half-hour?"
As for Vina Nettleton, the cloistered, she could do as she liked, being great in her calling; besides, a woman who had a man-visitor so rarely as Vina Nettleton, might be expected to become snappy and excited. Bedient was proving a rather stiff drug. Mrs. Wordling now wished to observe his action upon Beth Truba.
Really we should celebrate.... Let's get Vina to go with us, and we three set out in search of an absurd supper " Beth phoned at once. Her part was utterly disconnected. She put up the receiver, smiling. "What have you to say about those two going out to dinner?" "Vina and David Cairns?" "Exactly."
It is tiny, tiny, no bigger than a rat, but it has a bushy tail and four dark stripes like finger marks down its goldy-coloured back. And it never does anything but play, is never anything but happy; and this is why": Then he smote the strings of the vina till they thrilled again, and began, his high voice warbling and carolling like a summer bird. "Pretty! Pretty!
He saw through her, a sanction and authority for his own future years, her light upon the work he must do. The animation of his mind in her presence was pure with service. And Vina awakened, for she saw with trembling, what is a miracle to a modern woman's eyes, man's delight to honor that which is most truly woman's. So her girlhood crept back. At first Vina thought he was using her for a study.
Marguerite Grey was saying: "When I get too weary, or heart-sick, tired of my own work, in the sense of being bored by its commonness " "Wicked woman," murmured Vina. "When the thought comes that I should be a cashier in a restaurant," the other went on, in her sadly smiling way, speaking altogether to Bedient, "I come to this place. Here is an artist, Mr. Bedient.
Now, that was changed, not that Beth suffered eclipse, nor that his admiration abated; indeed, his gratefulness for that word of Beth's at just the proper moment, which had caused him gallantly to take the road of Vina Nettleton, was a rare study; but another had risen, not of Beth, but of more intimate meaning to the man, David Cairns.
Kate Wilkes lived at the Smilax Club, as did Vina Nettleton, and, for the present, Mrs. Wordling. The actress was recently in from the road. Her play had not run its course, merely abated for the hot months. She was an important satellite, if not a stellar attraction. About noon, on the day following the party for Bedient, Mrs.
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