It was good to be home! Gail wondered that she could ever have been content away from the loving shelter of her many, many friends. She had grown world weary in all the false gaiety of New York! She was disillusioned1! She was blasé. She was tired of frivolity2; and she immediately planned or enthusiastically agreed to take part in a series of gaieties which would have made an average hard-working man anticipate them with an already broken constitution.
The house was full of them, morning, noon and night; young girls, sedate3 and jolly, and all of them excitedly glad that Gail was among them again; and young men, in all the degrees from social butterflies to plodding5 business pluggers, equally glad.
Good comfortable home folks these, who were deliciously nice to the stately black-haired Arly, and voted her a tremendous beauty, and stood slightly in awe6 of her. The half cynical7 Arly, viewing them critically, found in them one note of interesting novelty; a certain general clean-hearted wholesomeness8, and, being a seeker after the unusual, and vastly appreciative10, she deliberately11 cultivated them; flattering the boys, but not so much as to make the other girls hate her. To the girls she made herself even more attractive, because she liked them better. She complimented them individually on the point of perfection for which each girl 188most prided herself; she told them that they were infinitely12 more clever than the women of New York, and better looking, in general; for the New York women were mostly clothes and make-up; and, above all, she envied them their truer lives!
No group of young people could resist such careful work as that, especially when performed by a young woman so adroit13 and so attractive, and so well gowned; so they lost their awkwardness with her, which removed any sense of discomfort14 Gail might have felt, which was the aim to be accomplished15. In those first few days Gail was the happiest of all creatures, in spite of the fact that the local papers had carried a politer echo of that despicable slave story. At nights, however, beginning with the second one, when the girls had retired16 to the mutual17 runway of their adjoining suites18, the conversation would turn something like this.
“Let’s see, this is the seventeenth, isn’t it?” thus Arly.
“Yes; Tuesday,” concentratedly selecting a chocolate, the box of which bore a New York name.
“Mrs. Matson’s ice skating ball is to-night.” A sidelong glance at the busy Gail.
“Um-hum.” A chocolate between her white teeth.
“She always has such original affairs.”
“Doesn’t she!” Gail draws her sandalled feet up under her and stretches down her pink negligee, so that she looks like a stiff little statue in tinted19 ivory.
“And such interesting people. That new artist is certain to be there. What’s his name? Oh yes, Vloddow. I could adore him.”
“You’re a mere20 verbal adorer,” laughs Gail, studying anxiously over the problem of whether she wants 189another piece of chocolate or not. Allison had sent such good ones. “Vloddow eats garlic.”
“That’s why I adore him, from a distance. Of course all the nice regular fellows will be there; Dick Rodley, and Ted4, and Houston, and — Oh, oh! I forgot to write Gerald,” and with a swift passing kiss somewhere between Gail’s ear and her chin, she hurries into her own dressing-room, with a backward glance to make sure that Gail is staring, with softened21 brown eyes, down into her chocolate box, and seeing there amid the brown confections, the laughing, swirling22 skaters in Mrs. Matson’s glistening23 ballroom24. Dick, and Ted, and Houston, and Willis, Lucile and Marion, Flo Reynolds, and the gay little Mrs. Babbitt, and a host of others. There were some who would not be at that ball; Allison, and the Reverend Smith Boyd, and—Arlene has plenty of time to write her formally dutiful letter without disturbance25.
Gail has letters, too, as the days wear on. She scarcely has time for them amid all the impromptu26 gaieties, but she does find a chance to read them; some of them twice. Of course there are letters from “home,” a prim27 and still affectionate one from Aunt Helen Davies, and a loving one, full of worry about Gail’s possible tonsilitis, from Aunt Grace, a hearty28 scrawl29 from Jim, a bubbling little note from Lucile, an absurd love letter from Ted, couched in terms of the utmost endearment30, and winding31 up with the proposition to elope with her if she’d only come back. That was the tenor32 of all her letters; if she’d only come back! Bless their hearts, she loved them; and yes, longed for them, even here in the happy, sheltering environment of her own dear home and friends! There were still other 190letters; a confidently friendly one from Allison, who sent her regularly candy and flowers on alternate days; a substantial one from Houston Van Ploon; a thoughtful one from Willis Cunningham; a florid one from Dick Rodley; nice little notes, calculated to relieve her embarrassment33, from all her “slaves” except the missing Count; and a discussion from the Reverend Smith Boyd. That was one of those which she read more than once; for it was quite worth it.
“Dear Miss Sargent:
“This being our regular evening for discussion, I beg to remind you that on our last debate, I shall not call it a dispute, we had barely touched upon the necessity for ritual, or rather, to avoid any quibble over the word necessity, on my insistence34 for the need of a ritual, when we decided35 that it was better to sing for the balance of the evening. I was the more ready to acquiesce36 in this, as we had, for the first time, hit upon a theorem to which we could both subscribe37; namely, that it is just as easy for the human mind to grasp the biblical theory of creation as to grasp the creation of the life-producing chaos38 out of which evolution must have proceeded.”
Gail laid down the letter at this point and smiled, with dancing eyes. She could see the stern face of the young rector brightening with pleasure as she had herself propounded39 this thought, and she could revisualise his grave pleasure as he had clothed it in accurate words for them both. It was, as he had said, an extremely solid starting point, to which they could always return.
191“That this belief is sufficient, even including a continuance of the omnipresent personal regard which we both admit to assume in that Creator, I deny. I can see your cheeks flush and your brown eyes sparkle as you come to this flat statement; and I am willing to answer for you that you object to my making so far-sweeping a statement, in the very beginning of what was to have been a slowly deductive process. You may not be wording it in just this manner, but this is, in effect, what you are saying.
“With much patience, I reply that you have not waited for me to finish, which, I must observe, in justice to myself, you seldom do.
“Kindly wait just a minute, please. You have thrown back your head, your brown hair tossing, your pointed40 chin uptilted, and a little red spot beginning to appear in your delicately tinted cheeks, but I hasten to remind you that, if we take up this little side matter of my unfortunate mention of one of your youthful proclivities41, we shall forget entirely42 the topic under discussion. I apologise for having been so rude as to remind you of it, and beg to state that when I pause at a comma, you had heard but half a statement.
“At this point you remark that no discussion should be based upon a half statement, and I admit, with shame, that I am slightly indignant, for you have not yet permitted me to finish my original proposition. Now you are sitting back, with your slender white hands folded in your lap, and the toe of one of your little pointed slippers43 waving gently, your curved lashes44 drooping45, and your eyes carelessly fixed46 on my cravat47, which I can not see, but which I believe to have been tied with as much care as a gentleman should expend48 upon his attire49.
192“Miss Sargent, you leave me helpless. I feel a chill sensation in my cheeks, as if a cold draught50 had blown upon them. You are firmly resolved to let me talk without interruption for the next half hour, upon which you will give me a most adroit answer to everything I have said. Your answer will have all the effect of refuting my entire line of logic51, without having given me an opportunity to defend the individual steps.
“I decline, with much patience, very much patience indeed, to lay myself open to this conclusion, not because of the undeserved sense of defeat it will force upon me, but because the matter at issue is too grave and important to be given a prejudiced dismissal.
“I can see you now, as I refuse to carry the subject further at this session. You stiffen52 in your chair, your eyes, which have seemed so carelessly indifferent, suddenly glow, and snap, and sparkle, and flash. The tiny red spots have deepened, enhancing the velvet53 of your cheeks. Your red lips curl. You impatiently touch back the waves of your rippling54 brown hair with your slender white hand, which turns so gracefully55 upon its wrist. You blaze straight into my eyes, and tell me that I have taken this means of avoiding the discussion, because I perceive in advance that I am beaten.
“Miss Sargent, I do not tell you that you are unfair and ungenerous to seize upon this advantage; instead, I bite my lip, and compel my countenance56 to befitting gravity, knowing that I should be above the petty emotions of anger, impatience57, and offended pride; but humbly58 confessing, to myself, that I have not my nature under such perfect subjection as I should like to have.
“Consequently, I beg you to defer59 this step in our 193logical deduction60 to another night, and turn, with grateful relief, to the music. I need not say how heartily61 I wish that you were here to sing with me.
“Yours earnestly,
“Smith Boyd.”
Gail shrieked62 when she first read that letter, then she read it again and blushed. She had, as she came upon his initial flat statement of denial, felt a flush in her cheeks and a snap in her eyes. She had, as she read, stiffened63 with indignation, and relaxed in scornful disdain64, and flashed with hot retort, in advance of his discernment that she would do so! She was flamingly vexed65 with him! On the third reading her eyes twinkled, and her red lips curved deliciously with humour, as she admired the cleverness which she had previously66 only recognised. In subsequent readings this was her continued attitude, and she kept the letter somewhere in the neighbourhood where she might touch it occasionally, because of the keen mental appreciation67 she had for it. Were her eyes really capable of such an infinite variety of expression as he had suggested? She looked in the glass to see; but was disappointed. They were merely large, and brown, and deep, and, just now, rather softened.
There was an impromptu party at Gail’s house, a jolly affair, indeed. All her old, steadfast68 friends, you know, who were quite sufficient to fill her life; and this was the night of the gay little Mrs. Babbitt’s affair in New York. How much better than those great, glittering, social pageants69 was a simple, wholesome9 little ball like this, with all her dear girl chums, in their pretty little Paris model frocks, and all the boys, in their shiny white fronts. No one had changed, not even impulsive70 194Howard Clemmens. Poor Howard! He knew now that his refusal was permanent and enduring, yet he came right to the front with his same assumption of proprietorship71. She let him do it. You see, in all these years, the boys had tacitly admitted that Howard “had the inside track”; so, while they all admired and loved her, they stepped aside and permitted him to monopolise her. Back home there was a sort of esprit de corps72 like that, though it was sometimes hard on the girl. When Gail had flown home from the cruel world to the sheltering arms of her mother and her friends, she had firmly planned to set Howard in his proper place as a formal friend, and thereafter be free. There were quite a number of the boys who had, at one time or another, seemed quite worth cultivation73. When she came to meet them again, however, with that same old brotherly love shining in their eyes, she somehow found that she did not care to be free. Anyhow, it would humiliate74 Howard to reduce him so publicly to the ranks, snip75 off his buttons and take his sabre, as it were; so she allowed him to clank his spurs, to the joy and delight of Arly.
This was the gayest party of which Gail had been the bright particular ornament76 since her return, and she quite felt, except for the presence of Arly, that she had fallen back into her old familiar life. Why, it seemed as if she had been home for ages and ages! There was the same old dance music, the Knippel orchestra, with the wonderfully gifted fat violinist, and the pallid77 pianist with the long hair, who had four children, and the ’cellist who scowled78 so dreadfully but played the deep passages so superbly, and clarinettist, whom every one thought should have gone in for concert work, and the grey-haired old basso player, who 195never looked up and who never moved a muscle except those in his arms, one up and down and the other crosswise; there was a new second violinist, a black-browed man who looked as if he had been disappointed in life, but second violinists always do.
At the end of the Sargent ballroom, where Gail’s sedate but hospitable79 mother always sat until the “Home, Sweet Home” dance was ended, were the same dear, familiar palms, which Marty, the florist80, always sent to everybody’s house to augment81 the home collection. The gorgeous big one had a leaf gone, but it was sprouting82 two others.
Tremendously gay affair. Everybody was delighted, and said so; and they laughed and danced and strolled and ate ices, and said jolly nothings, and knew, justifiably83, that they were nice, and clever, and happy young people; and Arly Fosland, with any number of young men wondering how old her husband was, danced conscientiously84, and smiled immediately when any one looked at her. Gail also was dancing conscientiously, and having a perfectly85 happy evening. At about this hour there would be something near four hundred people in the ballroom, and the drawing-rooms, and the conservatory86 of Mrs. Babbitt’s.
She was whirling near the balcony windows with a tall young friend who breathed, when there was an exclamation87 from a group of girls at the window. Vivian Jennings turned. She was a girl with the sort of eyes which, in one sweep, can find the only four-leafed clover in a forty-acre field.
“Gail!” she cried, almost dancing. “Gail! Do come and see it!”
Gail did not desert her partner; she merely started over to the window with one hand trailing behind her 196as an indication to follow, and immediately, without looking around, she called:
“Arly! Where’s Arly?”
What she saw was this. A rich brown limousine88, in which the dome89 light was brightly burning, had drawn90 up to the steps. Inside, among the rich brown cushions and hangings, and pausing to light a leisurely91 cigarette, sat the most wickedly handsome man in the world! He was black-haired, and black-moustached and black-goateed, and had large, lustrous92, melting black eyes, while on his oval cheeks was the ruddy bloom of health. Every girl in the window sighed, as, with a movement which was grace in every changing line, he stepped out of the brilliantly lighted limousine, and came slowly up the steps, tall, slender, magnificent, in his shining silk hat and his flowing Inverness, and his white tie, and his pleated shirt front—Oh, everything; correct to the last detail, except for the trifling93 touches of originality94, down to his patent leather tips! With a wave of careless ease he flung back his Inverness over one shoulder, and rang the bell!
“Dick!” cried a voice just behind Gail’s ear. Gail had not known that any one was leaning heavily on her shoulders, but now she and Arly, with one accord, turned and raced for the vestibule!
“You handsome thing!” cried Arly, as he stepped into the hall and held out a hand to each of them. “I’ve a notion to kiss you!”
“All right,” he beamed down on her, sparing another beam for Gail. No, Gail had not exaggerated in memory the magic of his melting eyes. It could not be exaggerated!
“There aren’t any words to tell you how welcome 197you are!” said Gail, as the butler disappeared with his hat and Inverness.
“What on earth brought you here to bless us?” demanded Arly.
“I came to propose to Gail,” announced Dick calmly, and took her hand again, bending down on her that wonderfully magnetic gaze, so that she was panic-stricken in the idea that he was about to proceed with his project right on the spot.
“Wait until after the dance,” she laughingly requested, drawing back a step and blushing furiously.
“We’re wasting time,” protested Arly. “Hurry on in, Dick. We want to exhibit you.”
“I don’t mind,” consented Dick cheerfully, and stepped through the doorway95, where he created the gasp96.
Eleven girls dreamed of his melting eyes that night; and Howard Clemmens lost his monopoly. Viewing Gail’s victorious97 scramble98 with Arly for Dick’s exclusive possession, Howard’s friends unanimously reduced him to the ranks.
After the dance, Dick made good his threat with Gail, and formally proposed, urging his enterprise in coming after her as one of his claims to consideration; but Gail, laughing, and liking99 him tremendously, told him he was too handsome to be married, and sent him back home with a fresh gardenia100 in his buttonhole. That night Arly and Gail sat long and silently on the comfortable couch in front of Arly’s fireplace, one in fluffy101 blue and the other in fluffy pink, and the one in fluffy blue furtively102 studying the one in fluffy pink from under her black eyelashes. The one in pink was gazing into the fire with far-seeing brown eyes, and was braiding 198and unbraiding, with slender white fingers, a flowing strand103 of her brown hair.
“Gail,” ventured the one in blue.
“Yes.” This abstractedly.
“Aren’t you a little bit homesick? I am.”
“Let’s go back!” excitedly.
“When?” and Gail jumped up.
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suites
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