OPHELIA STRONG had discovered her escape from domesticities a relief after the irritations1 and petulances of the last few months. Married life had proved nothing to her save the inconsiderate bigotry2 of her husband and the selfishness of men who refuse to reconsider habits formed in bachelor days. Ophelia believed herself to be a most misunderstood and ill-used person, a woman sacrificed to the over-fervid rashness of her own heart. Her love, a very shallow stream dependent largely on the rainfall of flattery, could easily be turned into other channels. A devotee of sensations, vain and convictionless, it was the most natural problem for her to consider how best she could frame life afresh in order to produce the most palatable4 and abundant satisfactions to press into the cup of pleasure.
Had Ophelia Strong been possessed5 of the literary knack6, the world would probably have received from her sundry7 erotic and hysterical8 effusions upon the supreme9 brutality10 of man. Ophelia was a feminine realist in the flesh, but she was unable to record her experiences on paper. Possessed of a grievance12, the modern Sappho scrolls13 out her often sordid14 wisdom and barters15 her emotions for the dubious16 edification of the members of circulating libraries. It is necessary in these days for the feminine realist to display a vivid familiarity with physiological17 data. The morbid18 anatomy19 of her own physical being is placed on record with a sincerity20 worthy21 of an encyclop?dist. Elaborately stained sections are often remarkably22 beautiful under the microscope. Even diseased tissues tinctured azure23 and red resemble fine arabesque24 on rich mosaics25. Reflect on the suggestiveness of morbid changes, however, and you will perhaps feel that there is something unpleasant in watching a woman preparing specimens27 to prove how the bacteria of sin affected28 her moral tissues.
Ophelia Strong possessed a grievance—a grievance capable of being developed to picturesque29 effect. She had read much hysterical fiction, and was inclined to believe that there was a distinct melodramatic charm in posing as a woman with a past. It was interesting to be able to hint that her heart had been bruised30 and trampled31 by a brutal11 and insensate fate. Like many women, she began to develop a depraved thirst for sympathy and a spurious conviction of a hundred and one imaginary woes32.
The particular hydropathic establishment patronized by Ophelia at Callydon was conducted in a style both plutocratic33 and pliant34. The upholstery was sumptuous35, the cooking excellent, the staff discreet36 and exceedingly servile. A very passable string band played in the winter-garden during the evening. The resident physician was a charming person with a pale face, a little black mustache, and beautifully manicured hands. He was the joy and salvation37 of all the dames38 who came to take the “waters.” In the height of his fame, the medical gentleman was permitted to prescribe for the Dowager Lady Punter’s poodle.
The etiquette39 of the establishment was remarkable40 for its pliability41. There were charades42, dances, concerts, billiard matches every evening; coaching parties, tennis tournaments, picnic expeditions during the day in summer. Golf appealed to the more strenuous43. Flirtation44 bulked largely in the régime. Every one was expected to be jovial45 and mischievous46. The society was mixed, but quite picturesque and genial47. There was the usual array of stylish48 men, beautiful creatures who gravitated into Callydon at certain seasons of the year. There were maiden49 ladies of every age and complexion50, powder-primed and natural. There were widows, charming souls! who delighted in the atmosphere of youth. There were earnest mothers who yearly brought bevies51 of daughters with a sly, matrimonial programme. There were elderly men who flirted52 extravagantly53 under the pretence54 of being grandfatherly and sympathetic. There were even a few solemn individuals who crept about morosely55 and seemed born out of season, individuals who frowned in the reading-room when any one chattered56, refrained from festivities, and were generally objectionable. Last of all, there was Major Maltravers, the Admirable Crichton of the place, who played the violin and had learned morality at Simla.
Ophelia Strong’s first meeting with James Maltravers occurred on the Collydon golf-links, where she and Miss Mabel Saker had gravitated to play a nine-hole “single” before lunch. Major Maltravers happened to meet her in the doorway57 of the pavilion as she returned ruddy and victorious58 from her morning on the “downs.” The soldier was one of those persons who boasted a cosmopolitan59 excellence60 in sport. He could prate61 of his tiger-skins, his polo matches, his conquests de c?ur with the cheerful optimism of the army. A woman’s points were to him much on a par26 with those of a horse. He liked breed, spirit, a fine carriage, and the elastic62 grace of healthy animalism. An?mia and spirituality were not noted63 in his programme.
The same evening he was introduced to Ophelia in the winter-garden by Mrs. Hayman, one of the elders of the community, and it was soon evident that he desired to make himself as interesting as his extensive experience and worldly fascination64 permitted. He was a tall, well-proportioned person with very regular teeth, deep-set eyes, and an emphatic65 chin. He possessed to perfection what would have been called the aristocratic air, and, despite his sporting proclivities66, he dressed quietly and in perfect taste. His conversation partook of that hyperbolical and ironical67 method that passes for wit in certain circles. He was positively68 cultured in many ways; even attempted epigrams on occasions, and could quote German philosophy to impress the unlearned. For the rest, his complexion was pallid69, his mustache shiny as jet, his person groomed70 with the most particular care. People considered him a very charming person, world-wise, cultured, a man who excelled in society, and could even express most graceful71 opinions concerning religion.
It was not long before he bestowed72 the larger share of his leisure upon Ophelia Strong and Miss Mabel Saker, her friend, as sparkling a brunette as ever sparkled in yellow-back fiction. They had played golf together, and the major had advanced so far in favor as to be able to discuss his own fancies and foibles with Ophelia. He admired her and the Trojan splendor73 of her beauty. Moreover, he was an interesting person, polished and rounded by long pilgrimages in the stream of life.
The winter-garden at Callydon was hung with electric lights screened under shades of olive-green silk. Its glass glittered above the dusky and profuse74 shadows of many palms; its floor was mosaiced green, blue, and white. Ophelia’s lounge-chair was lodged75 under a tall palm about whose brazen76 urn3 a rich company of arum lilies stood in bloom. A mass of azaleas colored a background about her white arms and neck, her lustrous77 hair and pale-blue dress. A fountain played close by, its spray glittering down with a musical cadence78 on the drenched79 green foliage80 of ferns.
The major had drawn81 a stool inlaid with ivory and mother-of-pearl beside Ophelia’s chair. Miss Mabel Saker had left them early to their own devices. The green palm with its group of white lilies seemed a species of oasis83 admirably placed for those who desired to be alone.
“Playing golf to-day?” the soldier was saying. “Not bad links, these. Bunkers jolly stiff; regular infernos84. I went round in eighty. Play much, eh?”
“For health’s sake.”
“Nonsense.”
“Dr. Glibly’s advice. I am his patient.”
“Pardon the remark, but you don’t look delicate.”
“Appearances are often fallacious.”
“As a matter of fact,” said the major, with confident frankness, “my friend Graham was only saying to me this afternoon that you were the most healthy-looking June rose he had ever seen blooming outside the Callydon pavilion. Now, I come to consider it, you do appear a trifle tired. Shut me up, you know, if you think I’m too personal.”
“I prefer frankness,” said Ophelia.
Maltravers displayed his white teeth.
“It makes life more rational,” he observed.
“One always knows how one stands.”
The soldier produced a cigarette-case from the pocket of his elaborately braided dinner-coat. The string band in an alcove85 had struck up the overture86 to a popular comic opera. A party of girls came in from the vestibule, laughing and chattering87, their dresses forming a brilliant mingling88 of colors under the palms.
“Do you mind smoke?” said the man, humming the chorus the band was playing.
“Not a bit. My husband smokes everywhere.”
“Lucky man. You spoil him, of course. Is he here with you?”
“No. He spends his time at home grubbing about in books.”
“Nonsense!”
“All husbands are spoiled,” said Ophelia.
The major elevated his eyebrows89 and appeared interested.
“What cynicism—at your age!”
“Oh, I am not so very young.”
“Four-and-twenty?”
“I did not refer to years, but to experience.”
The soldier leaned his elbows on his knees and adopted an attitude that was both respectful and sympathetic.
“I am sorry to hear you speak like that,” he said, with a chivalrous90 and fatherly air. “I hate to hear a woman hint at disappointments.”
Ophelia regarded the man interestedly from under her heavy aureole of hair. He seemed a blunt and brotherly person, and his ingenuous91 sympathy was quite fascinating, rendered to the languid accompaniment of a waltz.
“Some men are impossible creatures,” she said, fingering her rings. “For one thing, I was unfortunate in never possessing a brother.”
“Healthy friends, brothers,” observed the soldier. “I remember handling a whip once to good purpose. It instilled92 excellent moral tone into the young cub93 I chastened. All girls ought to have brothers.”
“Excellent in theory.”
“I never theorize. A man who has seen much of the world keeps to facts; theory is a perishable94 commodity. If a woman does not possess a brother by blood she ought to retain one by adoption95.”
“The thing is to discover him.”
“There are plenty of decent, manly96 fellows knocking about the world,” said the soldier.
Maltravers lit a second cigarette, and nodded to two youths in evening dress who were passing, with the complacent97 patronage98 of a minister in power. He was one of these men who are never so happy as when they are monopolizing99 the individual attention of a pretty woman. Maltravers preferred to pose as a very superior and sagacious person.
“The folly100 of matrimony,” he said, “is that women will go and marry young idiots of five-and-twenty, and submit themselves to the conceited101 and priggish patronage of mere102 boys. Young men are unstable103 creatures, with the nonsense not knocked out of them by hard experience. Love runs with mumps104 and measles105; we are all prone106 to it in youth.”
The man with the white teeth and the waxed mustache delivered himself of his convictions with concentrated adroitness107. His attitude was extremely politic108. At all events, it pleased the woman to whom his words were addressed.
“You approve, then,” she said, “of the man of forty as a matrimonial investment?”
“Certainly I do.”
“Rather an unromantic conclusion.”
“Not a bit of it,” retorted the soldier. “Do you think all the romance of life belongs to the treacly twenties? Your youth of the lily period will swear away his immortal109 soul ten times in two years. Your tough man of forty has lived through his inconsistencies, and falls in love at last with the grim seriousness of one who knows what it means to be in earnest. He does not prattle110 and sentimentalize for six months and then revert111 to a barmaid. He loves like the man he is. You will find I am right, perhaps, some day.”
Ophelia Strong smiled, it being her prerogative112 as a woman to seem amused. The veteran was refreshing113 and vigorous.
“Your views amuse me,” she said. “I am not so sure that there is not truth in what you say. Young men do not realize how much some things mean to a woman. We are very human.”
“Exactly; that is my chief point.”
“Then you believe that we need much humoring and a great measure of consideration?”
“You repeat my meaning.”
“Well?”
“A woman should find out whether a man knows how to love before she marries him.”
“How should she arrive at the conclusion?”
“If the man has any vanity, avoid him as you would avoid Satan. A man’s vices82 and foibles are more than half vanity. If you can tell the particular man that he is ugly or stupid, and he continues to adore you, then take him; he won’t make a bad husband.”
As may be inferred from the characters of the parties concerned and the circumstances in which they were situated114, this first debate proved but the prologue115 to a gradual and more intimate acquaintanceship. Callydon was an amiable116 place, and the proclivities of its visitors were so familiar that no ill-natured criticisms were passed on ultra-Platonic friendships. Ophelia Strong was glad of the man’s countenance117. When a woman’s vanity has conceived itself injured by fate, she is in a mood ripe for sympathies that can salve her smarting spirit. Nothing pleases her better than being able to hint at her woes to a friend of the opposite sex whose discretion118 had been matured by intimate contact with the world. It is the old fable119 of the child playing with fire, the inherent mischief120 of human nature experimenting with the morbid excitements of the more passionate121 affairs of the heart. However innocent be the delusion122, the forbidden fruit glows amid the green leaves and the antique dragon lies grinning in the grass.
James Maltravers was a diplomat123 of a high psychological order. As a lover, he believed in dramaticisms of an elevated type, tragedy of a picturesque nature, moralities staged to a full orchestral accompaniment. He had studied the methods of certain up-to-date play-wrights, and had come to the conclusion that nothing impresses a woman more than the idea that a man is suffering untold124 ethical125 torments126 by reason of the inevitable127 fascination of her beauty. The picture of a moral hero struggling in the coils of love impressed him vividly128 with a sense of dramatic power. Such a conviction bade fair to shine with glorious persuasiveness129 before the fine vanity of the feminine soul. Paolo burning upon the grid130 of fate.
In due course he adopted an air of dejected melancholy131 in Ophelia’s presence, looked at her with sad, saturnine132 eyes, and seemed like a wounded stag too conscious of the barb133. His conversation was often philosophical134 and pitched to a most elevating refrain. He looked blank verse even to the last tragic135 cadence of a monologue136 under the stars. He made much of chivalry137; the subject served him well. It was a glittering cloak, a fine robe of tinsel and glass to ape majesty138. It suited the man’s part with distinction. Maltravers went about on moral buskins, and was altogether a very impressive and romantic figure.
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