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"Then there are the Wagrams, and the Sheldons, and the Brinks and ever so many more who have told me themselves that they are far happier than they ever were before and can live more cheaply. She ought to be the happiest girl alive!" Mrs. Bell would agree to this, and quite swelled with happiness and pride; but Mrs. Weatherstone, watching narrowly, was not satisfied.
"Well, Mrs. Thaddler's so outraged by 'this scandalous attack upon the sanctities of the home' that she's going about saying all sorts of things about Miss Bell. O look I do believe that's her car!" Even as they spoke a toneless voice announced, "Mr. and Mrs. Thaddler," and Madam Weatherstone presently appeared to greet these visitors. "I think you are trying a dangerous experiment!" said Mrs.
"I wish to say," said that much beaded lady in a loud voice, "that I was against this unfortunate experiment from the first. And I trust it will never be repeated!" She sat down. Two tight little dimples flickered for an instant about the corners of Diantha's mouth. "Madam Weatherstone?" said the President, placatingly. Madam Weatherstone arose, rather sulkily, and looked about her.
"A pretty time o' day!" said the housekeeper with some asperity, hastily buttoning her gown; and she presently appeared, somewhat heated, before Mrs. Weatherstone. That lady was sitting, cool and gracious, her long ivory paper-cutter between the pages of a new magazine. "In how short a time could you pack, Mrs. Halsey?" she inquired. "Pack, ma'am? I'm not accustomed to doing packing.
"She has," Diantha admitted. "She's ten times as good as I am at that; but she's no more willing to carry obligation than I am, Mrs. Weatherstone." "Obligation is one thing investment is another," said her guest. "I live on my money that is, on other people's work. I am a base capitalist, and you seem to me good material to invest in. So take it or leave it I've brought you an offer."
"I'll be right down," she said. But a voice broke in from the hall, "I beg your pardon, Miss Bell, but I took the liberty of coming up; may I come in?" She came in, and the landlady perforce went out. Mrs. Weatherstone held Diantha's hand warmly, and looked into her eyes. "I was a schoolmate of Ellen Porne," she told the girl.
Diantha heard all this from the linen room while Madam Weatherstone buttonholed her daughter-in-law in the hall; and in truth the old lady meant that she should hear what she said. "She's right, I'm afraid!" said Diantha to herself "there will be a scandal if I'm not mighty careful and this household will be responsible for it!"
"But you enjoy it, don't you I mean having nice things?" asked her friend. "Of course I enjoy it, but so does Edgar. Can't a woman enjoy her home, just as a man does, without running the shop? I enjoy ocean travel, but I don't want to be either a captain or a common sailor!" Mrs. Weatherstone smiled, a little sadly. "You're lucky, you have other interests," she said.
Madam Weatherstone was much impressed at this point, and beat her black fan upon her black glove emphatically. Mrs. Thaddler also nodded; which meant a good deal from her. The applause was most gratifying to the speaker, who continued: "Fortunately for the world there are some women yet who appreciate the true values of life."
"You young people don't seem to care about your cousins at all!" pursued their mother, somewhat severely, setting her glass on the railing, from whence it was presently knocked off and broken. "That's the fifth!" remarked Dora, under breath. "Why should we, Ma?" inquired Cora. "We've never seen one of them except Madam Weatherstone!"
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