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Updated: June 8, 2025
There was no answer from without, but a light step turning away.... Assured that the visitor was gone, Vina turned back to Bedient. "We mustn't be interrupted nor must you go yet," she said with effort. "I don't think anything ever happened to me so important. Oh, I don't mean for my work; believe me in that, won't you? Since a little girl, I have thought of these things.
At Brahma's command, his consort, Sarisvati, goddess of speech and oratory, brought music to man, incidentally giving the Hindoos their finest musical instrument, the vina.
Beth Truba shook herself from this crippling rush of thoughts, and started to her feet. "Vina, you've been drinking deep of power. You're a giantess reeking with mad contagions. Also, you're a heretic. Allow me to remind you that we are spinsters; born and enforced, and decently-to-be-buried spinsters. It isn't the Sailor-man, but the spring of the year, that makes us a bit feverish.
To Vina he was like some tremendous vibration in the room. Her mind was roused as if by some great music.... It was in nothing that Bedient had said or looked, yet only a little while after the two men had gone, Vina realized she had a lover in David Cairns. She was dismayed, filled with confusion and alarm, but this was the foreground of mind. She had the sense of glad singing in the distances.
The young Norman stared at the speaker, and replied, in the same tone of grave affectation: "Courteous sir! the approbation of an ecclesiastic so eminent as I take you to be, from the modesty with which you conceal your greatness, cannot fail to draw upon me the envy of my English friends; who are accustomed to swear in verba magistri, only for verba they learnedly substitute vina."
Having heard enough to understand, he kicked the door shut, and Vina found him distraught that day.... It was in the dusk of that afternoon when Cairns met Bedient, whose happiness was eminent and shining as usual. Cairns gave him a chance to mention the episode which had despoiled his own day, but Bedient seemed to have forgotten it remotely.
I order you to eat thrice daily and tire yourself physically " "I eat," Vina said, looking bored and helpless at the thought. "I eat and I do enough physical work to tire a stone-mason " "But I can see through you to the bone! I think you only imagine you take nourishment. Oh, Vina, I know your life handling huge hard things and making them lovely with pure spirit. I must take better care of you.
And now Vina appeared, to lead them to the big round table in the room of the cabinets. "He will be here in a minute," she said. At each place of the table was an engraved card, which Vina explained: "When Mr. Bedient first came to my studio to me it was a wonderful afternoon.
When we got dar he gabe me a quarter an' tole me to loaf roun' until de races was called. Dis war jus' what I wanted, fur I knowed dat de Skylarks who used to own Vina libbed at Platte City, an' I t'ought likely some ob dem mought be at de races.
There was a light knock at the door. The face of the Grey One was like a wraith, motionless and staring at him. Vina Nettleton looked up from her soiled hands, which had streaked her face.... She moved suddenly to the door, but did not touch it. "Go away," she said intensely. "I can see no one." Her eyes seemed to burn along the frame.
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