Dick Peyton met her with the question on the threshold, drawing her gaily1 into the little square room, and adding, with a laugh with a blush in it: “You know she’s an uncommonly2 noticing person, and little things tell with her.”
He swung round on his heel to follow his mother’s smiling inspection3 of the apartment.
“She seems to have all the qualities,” Mrs. Denis Peyton remarked, as her circuit finally brought her to the prettily4 appointed tea-table.
“All,” he declared, taking the sting from her emphasis by his prompt adoption5 of it. Dick had always had a wholesome6 way of thus appropriating to his own use such small shafts7 of maternal8 irony9 as were now and then aimed at him.
Kate Peyton laughed and loosened her furs. “It looks charmingly,” she pronounced, ending her survey by an approach to the window, which gave, far below, the oblique10 perspective of a long side-street leading to Fifth Avenue.
The high-perched room was Dick Peyton’s private office, a retreat partitioned off from the larger enclosure in which, under a north light and on a range of deal tables, three or four young draughtsmen were busily engaged in elaborating his architectural projects. The outer door of the office bore the sign: Peyton and Gill, Architects; but Gill was an utilitarian11 person, as unobtrusive as his name, who contented12 himself with a desk in the workroom, and left Dick to lord it alone in the small apartment to which clients were introduced, and where the social part of the business was carried on.
It was to serve, on this occasion, as the scene of a tea designed, as Kate Peyton was vividly13 aware, to introduce a certain young lady to the scene of her son’s labours. Mrs. Peyton had been hearing a great deal lately about Clemence Verney. Dick was naturally expansive, and his close intimacy14 with his mother — an intimacy fostered by his father’s early death — if it had suffered some natural impairment in his school and college days, had of late been revived by four years of comradeship in Paris, where Mrs. Peyton, in a tiny apartment of the Rue15 de Varennes, had kept house for him during his course of studies at the Beaux Arts. There were indeed not lacking critics of her own sex who accused Kate Peyton of having figured too largely in her son’s life; of having failed to efface16 herself at a period when it is agreed that young men are best left free to try conclusions with the world. Mrs. Peyton, had she cared to defend herself, might have said that Dick, if communicative, was not impressionable, and that the closeness of texture17 which enabled him to throw off her sarcasms18 preserved him also from the infiltration19 of her prejudices. He was certainly no knight20 of the apron-string, but a seemingly resolute21 and self-sufficient young man, whose romantic friendship with his mother had merely served to throw a veil of suavity23 over the hard angles of youth.
But Mrs. Peyton’s real excuse was after all one which she would never have given. It was because her intimacy with her son was the one need of her life that she had, with infinite tact24 and discretion25, but with equal persistency26, clung to every step of his growth, dissembling herself, adapting herself, rejuvenating27 herself in the passionate28 effort to be always within reach, but never in the way.
Denis Peyton had died after seven years of marriage, when his boy was barely six. During those seven years he had managed to squander29 the best part of the fortune he had inherited from his step-brother; so that, at his death, his widow and son were left with a scant30 competence31. Mrs. Peyton, during her husband’s life, had apparently32 made no effort to restrain his expenditure33. She had even been accused by those judicious34 persons who are always ready with an estimate of their neighbours’ motives35, of having encouraged poor Denis’s improvidence36 for the gratification of her own ambition. She had in fact, in the early days of their marriage, tried to launch him in politics, and had perhaps drawn37 somewhat heavily on his funds in the first heat of the contest; but the experiment ending in failure, as Denis Peyton’s experiments were apt to end, she had made no farther demands on his exchequer38. Her personal tastes were in fact unusually simple, but her outspoken39 indifference40 to money was not, in the opinion of her critics, designed to act as a check upon her husband; and it resulted in leaving her, at his death, in straits from which it was impossible not to deduce a moral.
Her small means, and the care of the boy’s education, served the widow as a pretext41 for secluding42 herself in a socially remote suburb, where it was inferred that she was expiating43, on queer food and in ready-made boots, her rash defiance44 of fortune. Whether or not Mrs. Peyton’s penance45 took this form, she hoarded46 her substance to such good purpose that she was not only able to give Dick the best of schooling47, but to propose, on his leaving Harvard, that he should prolong his studies by another four years at the Beaux Arts. It had been the joy of her life that her boy had early shown a marked bent48 for a special line of work. She could not have borne to see him reduced to a mere22 money-getter, yet she was not sorry that their small means forbade the cultivation49 of an ornamental50 leisure. In his college days Dick had troubled her by a superabundance of tastes, a restless flitting from one form of artistic51 expression to another. Whatever art he enjoyed he wished to practise, and he passed from music to painting, from painting to architecture, with an ease which seemed to his mother to indicate lack of purpose rather than excess of talent. She had observed that these changes were usually due, not to self-criticism, but to some external discouragement. Any depreciation52 of his work was enough to convince him of the uselessness of pursuing that special form of art, and the reaction produced the immediate53 conviction that he was really destined54 to shine in some other line of work. He had thus swung from one calling to another till, at the end of his college career, his mother took the decisive step of transplanting him to the Beaux Arts, in the hope that a definite course of study, combined with the stimulus55 of competition, might fix his wavering aptitudes56. The result justified57 her expectation, and their four years in the Rue de Varennes yielded the happiest confirmation58 of her belief in him. Dick’s ability was recognized not only by his mother, but by his professors. He was engrossed59 in his work, and his first successes developed his capacity for application. His mother’s only fear was that praise was still too necessary to him. She was uncertain how long his ambition would sustain him in the face of failure. He gave lavishly60 where he was sure of a return; but it remained to be seen if he were capable of production without recognition. She had brought him up in a wholesome scorn of material rewards, and nature seemed, in this direction, to have seconded her training. He was genuinely indifferent to money, and his enjoyment61 of beauty was of that happy sort which does not generate the wish for possession. As long as the inner eye had food for contemplation, he cared very little for the deficiencies in his surroundings; or, it might rather be said, he felt, in the sum-total of beauty about him, an ownership of appreciation62 that left him free from the fret63 of personal desire. Mrs. Peyton had cultivated to excess this disregard of material conditions; but she now began to ask herself whether, in so doing, she had not laid too great a strain on a temperament64 naturally exalted65. In guarding against other tendencies she had perhaps fostered in him too exclusively those qualities which circumstances had brought to an unusual development in herself. His enthusiasms and his disdains66 were alike too unqualified for that happy mean of character which is the best defence against the surprises of fortune. If she had taught him to set an exaggerated value on ideal rewards, was not that but a shifting of the danger-point on which her fears had always hung? She trembled sometimes to think how little love and a lifelong vigilance had availed in the deflecting67 of inherited tendencies.
Her fears were in a measure confirmed by the first two years of their life in New York, and the opening of his career as a professional architect. Close on the easy triumphs of his studentships there came the chilling reaction of public indifference. Dick, on his return from Paris, had formed a partnership68 with an architect who had had several years of practical training in a New York office; but the quiet and industrious69 Gill, though he attracted to the new firm a few small jobs which overflowed70 from the business of his former employer, was not able to infect the public with his own faith in Peyton’s talents, and it was trying to a genius who felt himself capable of creating palaces to have to restrict his efforts to the building of suburban71 cottages or the planning of cheap alterations72 in private houses.
Mrs. Peyton expended73 all the ingenuities74 of tenderness in keeping up her son’s courage; and she was seconded in the task by a friend whose acquaintance Dick had made at the Beaux Arts, and who, two years before the Peytons, had returned to New York to start on his own career as an architect. Paul Darrow was a young man full of crude seriousness, who, after a youth of struggling work and study in his native northwestern state, had won a scholarship which sent him abroad for a course at the Beaux Arts. His two years there coincided with the first part of Dick’s residence, and Darrow’s gifts had at once attracted the younger student. Dick was unstinted in his admiration75 of rival talent, and Mrs. Peyton, who was romantically given to the cultivation of such generosities76, had seconded his enthusiasm by the kindest offers of hospitality to the young student. Darrow thus became the grateful frequenter of their little salon77; and after their return to New York the intimacy between the young men was renewed, though Mrs. Peyton found it more difficult to coax78 Dick’s friend to her New York drawing-room than to the informal surroundings of the Rue de Varennes. There, no doubt, secluded79 and absorbed in her son’s work, she had seemed to Darrow almost a fellow-student; but seen among her own associates she became once more the woman of fashion, divided from him by the whole breadth of her ease and his awkwardness. Mrs. Peyton, whose tact had divined the cause of his estrangement80, would not for an instant let it affect the friendship of the two young men. She encouraged Dick to frequent Darrow, in whom she divined a persistency of effort, an artistic self-confidence, in curious contrast to his social hesitancies. The example of his obstinate81 capacity for work was just the influence her son needed, and if Darrow would not come to them she insisted that Dick must seek him out, must never let him think that any social discrepancy82 could affect a friendship based on deeper things. Dick, who had all the loyalties83, and who took an honest pride in his friend’s growing success, needed no urging to maintain the intimacy; and his copious84 reports of midnight colloquies85 in Darrow’s lodgings86 showed Mrs. Peyton that she had a strong ally in her invisible friend.
It had been, therefore, somewhat of a shock to learn in the course of time that Darrow’s influence was being shared, if not counteracted87, by that of a young lady in whose honour Dick was now giving his first professional tea. Mrs. Peyton had heard a great deal about Miss Clemence Verney, first from the usual purveyors of such information, and more recently from her son, who, probably divining that rumour88 had been before him, adopted his usual method of disarming89 his mother by taking her into his confidence. But, ample as her information was, it remained perplexing and contradictory90, and even her own few meetings with the girl had not helped her to a definite opinion. Miss Verney, in conduct and ideas, was patently of the “new school”: a young woman of feverish91 activities and broad-cast judgments92, whose very versatility93 made her hard to define. Mrs. Peyton was shrewd enough to allow for the accidents of environment; what she wished to get at was the residuum of character beneath Miss Verney’s shifting surface.
“It looks charmingly,” Mrs. Peyton repeated, giving a loosening touch to the chrysanthemums94 in a tall vase on her son’s desk.
Dick laughed, and glanced at his watch.
“They won’t be here for another quarter of an hour. I think I’ll tell Gill to clean out the work-room before they come.”
“Are we to see the drawings for the competition?” his mother asked.
He shook his head smilingly. “Can’t — I’ve asked one or two of the Beaux Arts fellows, you know; and besides, old Darrow’s actually coming.”
“Impossible!” Mrs. Peyton exclaimed.
“He swore he would last night.” Dick laughed again, with a tinge95 of self-satisfaction. “I’ve an idea he wants to see Miss Verney.”
“Ah,” his mother murmured. There was a pause before she added: “Has Darrow really gone in for this competition?”
“Rather! I should say so! He’s simply working himself to the bone.”
Mrs. Peyton sat revolving96 her muff on a meditative97 hand; at length she said: “I’m not sure I think it quite nice of him.”
Her son halted before her with an incredulous stare. “Mother!” he exclaimed.
The rebuke98 sent a blush to her forehead. “Well — considering your friendship — and everything.”
“Everything? What do you mean by everything? The fact that he had more ability than I have and is therefore more likely to succeed? The fact that he needs the money and the success a deuced sight more than any of us? Is that the reason you think he oughtn’t to have entered? Mother! I never heard you say an ungenerous thing before.”
The blush deepened to crimson99, and she rose with a nervous laugh. “It was ungenerous,” she conceded. “I suppose I’m jealous for you. I hate these competitions!”
Her son smiled reassuringly100. “You needn’t. I’m not afraid: I think I shall pull it off this time. In fact, Paul’s the only man I’m afraid of — I’m always afraid of Paul — but the mere fact that he’s in the thing is a tremendous stimulus.”
His mother continued to study him with an anxious tenderness. “Have you worked out the whole scheme? Do you see it yet?”
“Oh, broadly, yes. There’s a gap here and there — a hazy101 bit, rather — it’s the hardest problem I’ve ever had to tackle; but then it’s my biggest opportunity, and I’ve simply got to pull it off!”
Mrs. Peyton sat silent, considering his flushed face and illumined eye, which were rather those of the victor nearing the goal than of the runner just beginning the race. She remembered something that Darrow had once said of him: “Dick always sees the end too soon.”
“You haven’t too much time left,” she murmured.
“Just a week. But I shan’t go anywhere after this. I shall renounce102 the world.” He glanced smilingly at the festal tea-table and the embowered desk. “When I next appear, it will either be with my heel on Paul’s neck — poor old Paul — or else — or else — being dragged lifeless from the arena103!”
His mother nervously104 took up the laugh with which he ended. “Oh, not lifeless,” she said.
His face clouded. “Well, maimed for life, then,” he muttered.
Mrs. Peyton made no answer. She knew how much hung on the possibility of his whining105 the competition which for weeks past had engrossed him. It was a design for the new museum of sculpture, for which the city had recently voted half a million. Dick’s taste ran naturally to the grandiose106, and the erection of public buildings had always been the object of his ambition. Here was an unmatched opportunity, and he knew that, in a competition of the kind, the newest man had as much chance of success as the firm of most established reputation, since every competitor entered on his own merits, the designs being submitted to a jury of architects who voted on them without knowing the names of the contestants107. Dick, characteristically, was not afraid of the older firms; indeed, as he had told his mother, Paul Darrow was the only rival he feared. Mrs. Peyton knew that, to a certain point, self-confidence was a good sign; but somehow her son’s did not strike her as being of the right substance — it seemed to have no dimension but extent. Her fears were complicated by a suspicion that, under his professional eagerness for success, lay the knowledge that Miss Verney’s favour hung on the victory. It was that, perhaps, which gave a feverish touch to his ambition; and Mrs. Peyton, surveying the future from the height of her material apprehensions108, divined that the situation depended mainly on the girl’s view of it. She would have given a great deal to know Clemence Verney’s conception of success.
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