In the same way Clyde, on encountering her, was greatly stirred. Since the abortive1 contact with Dillard, Rita andZella, and afterwards the seemingly meaningless invitation to the Griffiths with its introduction to and yet onlypassing glimpse of such personages as Bella, Sondra Finchley and Bertine Cranston, he was lonely indeed. Thathigh world! But plainly he was not to be allowed to share in it. And yet because of his vain hope in connectionwith it, he had chosen to cut himself off in this way. And to what end? Was he not if anything more lonely thanever? Mrs. Peyton! Going to and from his work but merely nodding to people or talking casually--or howeversociably with one or another of the storekeepers along Central Avenue who chose to hail him--or even some ofthe factory girls here in whom he was not interested or with whom he did not dare to develop a friendship. Whatwas that? Just nothing really. And yet as an offset3 to all this, of course, was he not a Griffiths and so entitled totheir respect and reverence4 even on this account? What a situation really! What to do!
And at the same time, this Roberta Alden, once she was placed here in this fashion and becoming more familiarwith local conditions, as well as the standing5 of Clyde, his charm, his evasive and yet sensible interest in her, wasbecoming troubled as to her state too. For once part and parcel of this local home she had joined she wasbecoming conscious of various local taboos7 and restrictions8 which made it seem likely that never at any timehere would it be possible to express an interest in Clyde or any one above her officially. For there was a localtaboo in regard to factory girls aspiring9 toward or allowing themselves to become interested in their officialsuperiors. Religious, moral and reserved girls didn't do it. And again, as she soon discovered, the line ofdemarcation and stratification between the rich and the poor in Lycurgus was as sharp as though cut by a knife ordivided by a high wall. And another taboo6 in regard to all the foreign family girls and men,--ignorant, low,immoral, un-American! One should--above all--have nothing to do with them.
But among these people as she could see--the religious and moral, lower middle-class group to which she and allof her intimates belonged--dancing or local adventurous10 gayety, such as walking the streets or going to a movingpicture theater--was also taboo. And yet she, herself, at this time, was becoming interested in dancing. Worsethan this, the various young men and girls of the particular church which she and Grace Marr attended at first,were not inclined to see Roberta or Grace as equals, since they, for the most part, were members of older andmore successful families of the town. And so it was that after a very few weeks of attendance of church affairsand services, they were about where they had been when they started--conventional and acceptable, but withoutthe amount of entertainment and diversion which was normally reaching those who were of their same churchbut better placed.
And so it was that Roberta, after encountering Clyde and sensing the superior world in which she imagined hemoved, and being so taken with the charm of his personality, was seized with the very virus of ambition andunrest that afflicted11 him. And every day that she went to the factory now she could not help but feel that his eyeswere upon her in a quiet, seeking and yet doubtful way. Yet she also felt that he was too uncertain as to what shewould think of any overture12 that he might make in her direction to risk a repulse13 or any offensive interpretationon her part. And yet at times, after the first two weeks of her stay here, she wishing that he would speak to her- that he would make some beginning--at other times that he must not dare--that it would be dreadful andimpossible. The other girls there would see at once. And since they all plainly felt that he was too good or tooremote for them, they would at once note that he was making an exception in her case and would put their owninterpretation on it. And she knew the type of a girl who worked in the Griffiths stamping room would put butone interpretation14 on it,--that of looseness.
At the same time in so far as Clyde and his leaning toward her was concerned there was that rule laid down byGilbert. And although, because of it, he had hitherto appeared not to notice or to give any more attention to onegirl than another, still, once Roberta arrived, he was almost unconsciously inclined to drift by her table and pausein her vicinity to see how she was progressing. And, as he saw from the first, she was a quick and intelligentworker, soon mastering without much advice of any kind all the tricks of the work, and thereafter earning aboutas much as any of the others-- fifteen dollars a week. And her manner was always that of one who enjoyed it andwas happy to have the privilege of working here. And pleased to have him pay any little attention to her.
At the same time he noted15 to his surprise and especially since to him she seemed so refined and different, acertain exuberance16 and gayety that was not only emotional, but in a delicate poetic17 way, sensual. Also thatdespite her difference and reserve she was able to make friends with and seemed to be able to understand theviewpoint of most of the foreign girls who were essentially18 so different from her. For, listening to her discuss thework here, first with Lena Schlict, Hoda Petkanas, Angelina Pitti and some others who soon chose to speak toher, he reached the conclusion that she was not nearly so conventional or standoffish as most of the otherAmerican girls. And yet she did not appear to lose their respect either.
Thus, one noontime, coming back from the office lunch downstairs a little earlier than usual, he found her andseveral of the foreign-family girls, as well as four of the American girls, surrounding Polish Mary, one of thegayest and roughest of the foreign-family girls, who was explaining in rather a high key how a certain "feller"whom she had met the night before had given her a beaded bag, and for what purpose.
"I should go with heem to be his sweetheart," she announced with a flourish, the while she waved the bag beforethe interested group. "And I say, I tack19 heem an' think on heem. Pretty nice bag, eh?" she added, holding it aloftand turning it about. "Tell me," she added with provoking and yet probably only mock serious eyes and wavingthe bag toward Roberta, "what shall I do with heem? Keep heem an' go with heem to be his sweetheart or giveheem back? I like heem pretty much, that bag, you bet."And although, according to the laws of her upbringing, as Clyde suspected, Roberta should have been shockedby all this, she was not, as he noticed--far from it. If one might have judged from her face, she was very muchamused.
Instantly she replied with a gay smile: "Well, it all depends on how handsome he is, Mary. If he's very attractive,I think I'd string him along for a while, anyhow, and keep the bag as long as I could.""Oh, but he no wait," declared Mary archly, and with plainly a keen sense of the riskiness20 of the situation, thewhile she winked21 at Clyde who had drawn22 near. "I got to give heem bag or be sweetheart to-night, and so swellbag I never can buy myself." She eyed the bag archly and roguishly, her own nose crinkling with the humor ofthe situation. "What I do then?""Gee23, this is pretty strong stuff for a little country girl like Miss Alden. She won't like this, maybe," thoughtClyde to himself.
However, Roberta, as he now saw, appeared to be equal to the situation, for she pretended to be troubled. "Gee,you are in a fix," she commented. "I don't know what you'll do now." She opened her eyes wide and pretended tobe greatly concerned. However, as Clyde could see, she was merely acting24, but carrying it off very well.
And frizzled-haired Dutch Lena now leaned over to say: "I take it and him too, you bet, if you don't want him.
Where is he? I got no feller now." She reached over as if to take the bag from Mary, who as quickly withdrew it.
And there were squeals25 of delight from nearly all the girls in the room, who were amused by this eccentrichorseplay. Even Roberta laughed loudly, a fact which Clyde noted with pleasure, for he liked all this roughhumor, considering it mere2 innocent play.
"Well, maybe you're right, Lena," he heard her add just as the whistle blew and the hundreds of sewing machinesin the next room began to hum. "A good man isn't to be found every day." Her blue eyes were twinkling and herlips, which were most temptingly modeled, were parted in a broad smile. There was much banter26 and more bluffin what she said than anything else, as Clyde could see, but he felt that she was not nearly as narrow as he hadfeared. She was human and gay and tolerant and good-natured. There was decidedly a very liberal measure ofplay in her. And in spite of the fact that her clothes were poor, the same little round brown hat and blue clothdress that she had worn on first coming to work here, she was prettier than anyone else. And she never needed topaint her lips and cheeks like the foreign girls, whose faces at times looked like pink-frosted cakes. And howpretty were her arms and neck--plump and gracefully27 designed! And there was a certain grace and abandon abouther as she threw herself into her work as though she really enjoyed it. As she worked fast during the hottestportions of the day, there would gather on her upper lip and chin and forehead little beads28 of perspiration29 whichshe was always pausing in her work to touch with her handkerchief, while to him, like jewels, they seemed onlyto enhance her charm.
Wonderful days, these, now for Clyde. For once more and here, where he could be near her the long day through,he had a girl whom he could study and admire and by degrees proceed to crave30 with all of the desire of which heseemed to be capable--and with which he had craved31 Hortense Briggs--only with more satisfaction, since as hesaw it she was simpler, more kindly32 and respectable. And though for quite a while at first Roberta appeared orpretended to be quite indifferent to or unconscious of him, still from the very first this was not true. She was onlytroubled as to the appropriate attitude for her. The beauty of his face and hands--the blackness and softness ofhis hair, the darkness and melancholy33 and lure34 of his eyes. He was attractive--oh, very. Beautiful, really, to her.
And then one day shortly thereafter, Gilbert Griffiths walking through here and stopping to talk to Clyde, shewas led to imagine by this that Clyde was really much more of a figure socially and financially than she hadpreviously thought. For just as Gilbert was approaching, Lena Schlict, who was working beside her, leaned overto say: "Here comes Mr. Gilbert Griffiths. His father owns this whole factory and when he dies, he'll get it, theysay. And he's his cousin," she added, nodding toward Clyde. "They look a lot alike, don't they?""Yes, they do," replied Roberta, slyly studying not only Clyde but Gilbert, "only I think Mr. Clyde Griffiths is alittle nicer looking, don't you?"Hoda Petkanas, sitting on the other side of Roberta and overhearing this last remark, laughed. "That's what everyone here thinks. He's not stuck up like that Mr. Gilbert Griffiths, either.""Is he rich, too?" inquired Roberta, thinking of Clyde.
"I don't know. They say not," she pursed her lips dubiously35, herself rather interested in Clyde along with theothers. "He worked down in the shrinking room before he came up here. He was just working by the day, I guess.
But he only came on here a little while ago to learn the business. Maybe he won't work in here much longer."Roberta was suddenly troubled by this last remark. She had not been thinking, or so she had been trying to tellherself, of Clyde in any romantic way, and yet the thought that he might suddenly go at any moment, never to beseen by her any more, disturbed her now. He was so youthful, so brisk, so attractive. And so interested in her,too. Yes, that was plain. It was wrong to think that he would be interested in her--or to try to attract him by anyleast gesture of hers, since he was so important a person here--far above her.
For, true to her complex, the moment she heard that Clyde was so highly connected and might even have money,she was not so sure that he could have any legitimate36 interest in her. For was she not a poor working girl? Andwas he not a very rich man's nephew? He would not marry her, of course. And what other legitimate thing wouldhe want with her? She must be on her guard in regard to him.
克莱德同她邂逅后，心里也同样非常激动。他跟迪拉特。丽达。泽拉的往来早已中断了;后来，似乎又毫无意义地给请到了格里菲思府上，在那里匆匆瞥了一眼诸如贝拉。桑德拉。芬奇利和伯蒂娜。克兰斯顿那样上流社会里名媛闺秀;说实话，他依然还是很孤寂。那个上流社会啊!
显然不准克莱德登堂入奥。正因为他对此抱有幻想，便跟所有其他朋友断绝了来往。可是结果又怎样呢?
如今，他不是反而比过去更加孤寂了吗?
只跟佩顿太太打交道!
每天上班。下班，只不过见人点点头，或是偶尔扯上几句……或是跟中央大道上主动打招呼的商店掌柜寒暄几句……或是索性就跟厂里一些女工也招呼一下，尽管对这些女工，他既不感兴趣，又不敢进一步跟她们交朋友。这究竟是怎么回事?
其实，还是什么事都没有。不过，话又说回来，他不是姓格里菲思吗?
单凭这一点，他不是就有权受到他们大家的尊敬，乃至于崇拜吗?
真的，这有多微妙啊!
那又该怎么办呢!
再说说这位罗伯达。奥尔登。自从她就这样在莱柯格斯落脚后，对当地情况与克莱德在厂里地位都已有所了解，她发觉克莱德很动人，还对她脉脉传情，但她对自己的前途却也感到困惑了。从她住进牛顿夫妇家后，懂得了当地种种清规戒律，看来绝对不让她对克莱德，或是对厂里任何一个职位比她高的人表示什么兴趣了。因为，这里有一条禁令，就是不许女工对上司存有非分之想，或则使上司对她们发生兴趣。凡是虔诚。正派。谨慎的女工，都不会这么做。
不久，她又发现在莱柯格斯，贫富界限就象用一把刀子切开，或是用一堵高墙隔开，分得清楚极了。再有一条禁令，是有关所有外国移民家庭里男男女女的……他们都是愚昧无知，低人一等，伤风败俗，压根儿不是美国人!
不拘是谁……最要紧的是……绝对不要跟他们有什么来往。
罗伯达又发现:
她自己和她所有知己，全都属于虔信上帝。恪守道德。地位较低的中间阶层，而在这些人中间，诸如跳跳舞，或是上大街溜达。看电影等等在当地要冒风险的娱乐消遣，也都是禁止的。不过，她自己正是在这时对跳舞发生了兴趣。最糟的是，她跟格雷斯。玛尔最初去做礼拜的那个教堂里，有一些男女青年，好象并不平等对待罗伯达和格雷斯，因为他们绝大多数是出身于莱柯格斯相当发迹的古老世家。事实上，她们上教堂做礼拜，参加圣事活动已有一两个星期，但她们的处境跟开始时相比并没有得到改变:
尽管她们循规蹈矩，无懈可击，已被教会这个圈子里的人所接纳，可是娱乐与交际活动，照例只是同一个教会里社会地位较高的那些人的事，她们始终没有份。
罗伯达同克莱德不期而遇后，料想他是属于上流社会的，同时又被他的魅力深深吸引。就这样，曾使克莱德感到痛苦的爱好虚荣而又焦灼不安这种病毒此刻也感染给她了。她每天去工厂上班时，就不由得感到:
向她投来的，正是他那种默默追求。但又迟疑不定的目光。不过，她还感到，他也不敢对她作出亲近表示，深怕她会拒绝，或是让她产生反感。然而，她在这里做工已有两个星期以后，有时也巴不得他能跟她说说话……先让他开个头吧……而有时，她却认为他不应该如此大胆……这太可怕了，断断乎不行。别的姑娘们一下子会看到的。她们分明都知道，他这个人太好了，或者离她们太远了，可她们马上注意到他对她是另眼相看，也免不了议论纷纷。而罗伯达知道，在格里菲思厂内打印间做工的这类姑娘，她们对这种事只有一种解释:
那就是……放荡。
与此同时，在克莱德方面，尽管他对她有偏好，他却并没有忘掉吉尔伯特所定下的那一套规矩。为了循规蹈矩，克莱德至今一直佯装对哪一个姑娘都不注意，不特别垂青。不过，现在只要罗伯达一到，他几乎情不自禁走到她桌子边，伫立在她身旁，看看她是如何操作的。如同他一开头就预料的那样，她是个聪明伶俐的女工，用不着多点拨，很快就掌握了工作中所有诀窍，此后赚的钱便跟人家一样多……每星期十五块美元。瞧她那副神气，总是好象很喜欢在这里工作，而且，能在这里工作她还觉得很幸福似的。再有，哪怕是来自克莱德一丁点儿的青睐，她心里也是喜滋滋的。
同时，他觉察到她身上洋溢着一种欢快的神情，它不仅出自内心情感，而且含有一种淡淡的诗意，乃至于性感丰富的情调。这不免使他大吃一惊，特别是因为原先他觉得她是那么温文尔雅，那么与众不同。他还觉察到，尽管她与众不同，谨小慎微，可她居然能够跟和她迥然不同的绝大多数外国移民姑娘交朋友，并且似乎还能了解她们的思想观点。听了她谈论这里的工作(她先是跟莉娜。希莉克特。霍达。佩特卡娜斯。安吉利娜。皮蒂谈，接着跟很快又来和她搭讪的其他姑娘谈)之后，克莱德心中认定，她远不是象大多数美国姑娘那么保守。傲慢。不过，看来她们对她还是相当尊敬的。
有一天正好午休时分，他在楼下刚进过午餐，比往常早一点回办公室去，这时他看见她正跟好几个外国移民姑娘，还有四个美国姑娘，把波兰姑娘玛丽团团围住。玛丽是外国移民姑娘里头最爱逗乐，也最粗里粗气的一个，正扯着大嗓门冲她们说，前天晚上她碰到一个"小伙子"，送给她一只饰有小珠子的手提包，真不知道他有什么用意呢。
"他想我拿了这玩意儿，就成了他的心上人呗，"她自吹自擂地说着，一边把手提包在爱看热闹的众人面前来回直晃荡。"我说，这个可得想一想。够帅的手提包，嗯?
"她找补着说，一边把手提包高高举起，在空中来回打转。
"你说说，"她冲罗伯达把手提包来回直晃荡，两眼露出挑逗性的同时也许只是假正经的样子。"我该怎么对付他?
收下吧，跟他走，就成了他的心上人?
还是干脆退还他?
说真的，我可挺喜欢他，还有这个手提包哩。"克莱德心中琢磨，根据罗伯达的教养，听了这一套，按说准定大吃一惊。
可他仔细观察，她并没有这样……压根儿都不震惊。从她脸上表情看，可以知道她打心眼儿里觉得挺好玩。
她马上粲然一笑，说:
"哦，这可全得看他模样儿漂亮不漂亮，玛丽。要是他长得很漂亮，我想我就胡弄他，反正胡弄一阵再说。至于手提包，我就照收不误啦。""哦，可他等不及呢，"玛丽顽皮地说，显然深知在这种情况下要冒一些风险，同时两眼向走过来的克莱德眨巴了一下。"要是我就把手提包退还他，要不然今儿晚上干脆当他的心上人去。这么帅的手提包，反正我一辈子都买不起，"她顽皮而又没好气地瞅了一下手提包，鼻子一皱，样子挺滑稽的。"我究竟该怎么办呢?
""嘿，这对奥尔登小姐这么一个乡下小姑娘来说，是太过分了。也许她不喜欢这一套，"克莱德暗自寻思道。
可是此刻他发现罗伯达好象应付裕如:
她故意佯装面有难色。"嘿，你可进退两难啦，"她说。"我也不知道你该怎么办才好，"她睁大眼睛，装出深为关注的样子。不过，克莱德一眼看出，她只不过是装着玩儿的，但她就是能装得维肖维妙。
这时，那个鬈头发的荷兰姑娘莉娜身子俯过来说:
"要是你不要他，说真的，我就把手提包连同他那个小伙子一块都要。上哪儿找他去?
这会儿我正没有小伙子呢。"她伸出一只手，好象要把手提包从玛丽手里夺走似的，玛丽马上把手提包收了回去。屋子里几乎所有的姑娘对这种古怪的。粗鄙的逗乐都觉得挺好玩，兴高采烈地尖叫起来。甚至罗伯达也放声大笑了，对此，克莱德也感到很高兴，因为他本来就很喜欢这种粗俗的诙谐，觉得它只不过是无伤大雅的玩笑罢了。
"是啊，也许你说得对，莉娜，"正当汽笛长鸣，隔壁房间里好几百台缝纫机一齐响起来的时候，他听见罗伯达继续说道。
"好男人可不是每天都能碰上的。"她的那双蓝眼睛在闪闪发光，她那非常诱人的嘴唇大笑时张得很大。克莱德心里明白，她这是在开开玩笑，虚张声势，但是，他也觉得，她压根儿不是象他原先担心那样心胸狭隘。她富有人情味，总是乐乐呵呵，待人宽厚，心眼儿可好。显然，她还最爱逗乐儿。尽管她身上穿得挺差劲，头上戴的还是她新来乍到时那顶褐色小圆帽，穿的依然是那件蓝布连衣裙，可在所有女工里头，就数她最漂亮。她用不着象那些外国移民女郎一个劲儿抹口红，涂脂粉，以致有的时候她们的脸看上去就象一块块粉红色蛋糕。瞧她的胳臂和脖子，该有多美……又丰腴，又雅致!
她全神贯注地工作着，仿佛她从这一工作中获得真正的乐趣似的，这时候，她身上自然流露出一种美与乐此不疲的神态。在一天之中最炎热的几个钟头里，由于她紧张工作，这时候，她的上唇。下巴。前额上渗出细如珠玑的汗水，她免不了把活儿放下，用手绢将汗水擦去。而在克莱德看来，这些汗水真的就象珠宝一样，只会使她变得更美了。
这真是克莱德美不滋儿的日子啊。现在，他终于又有了一位姑娘。就在这儿，他可以整天价守在她身边。他可以仔细端详她，打心眼儿里喜爱她，久而久之，他就倾其所有的热情渴求她，如同当初他渴求霍丹斯。布里格斯一样……只不过他觉得如今更为满意，因为他知道，相比之下，罗伯达更单纯。和蔼。
可敬。虽说罗伯达开头好象(或是故意装成)对他很冷淡，或是不理睬他，其实，一开头这就不是真的。她只是不知道自己该怎么表态才好。瞧他漂亮的脸儿和手，乌黑而又柔软的头发，还有忧郁而又迷人的黑眼睛!
他呀长得很动人……哦，非常动人。她觉得，说真的，他可是一个美男子。
后来没有多久，有一天，吉尔伯特。格里菲思从这儿走过，跟克莱德谈了几句话……因此，她心里就琢磨克莱德是一个有钱有势人物，比她过去想象的确实还要优越得多。正好吉尔伯特走近时，在罗伯达身边干活的莉娜。希莉克特身子俯过来跟她说:
"吉尔伯特。格里菲思先生来啦。整个工厂都是他父亲开的。
人家说，老头儿一死，就全归他啦。他就是吉尔伯特的堂弟，"她冲着克莱德点头示意说。"他们俩模样儿长得很象，是不是?
""是的，真象啊，"罗伯达回答说，偷偷地把克莱德和吉尔伯特打量一番。"只不过我觉得相比之下，克莱德。格里菲思先生还要好看，你说呢?
"坐在罗伯达另一头的霍达。佩特卡娜斯一听见最末这句话，便格格大笑，说:
"这儿人人都有这么个看法。何况他也不象吉尔伯特。格里菲思先生那么傲气呢。""那他也有钱吗?
"罗伯达心里在想克莱德，就开口这么问道。
"我可不知道。人家说他没有钱，"她不以为然地嘴唇一噘说。她跟其他女工一样，对克莱德倒是也很感兴趣。"他原先是在防缩车间做过。依我看，那时他干的只是按日计工。不过，听说他是要熟悉这一行不久前才上这儿来的。也许他在这里也待不了多久的。"罗伯达一听到最后这句话，突然心慌了。迄至今日，她总是竭力告诫自己:
她对克莱德不存任何罗曼蒂克幻想。可是如今听说他随时有可能调走，以后她永远也见不到他了，不由得使她心乱如麻。瞧他那么年轻，那么活泼，那么迷人。而且，对她也很喜爱。是的，那是明摆着的事。可是，说实话，她是不应该有这个想法的，也不应该吸引他的注意，因为他在这里是那么重要的一个人物……比她可高得多哩。
罗伯达一听说克莱德有如此显贵的亲戚，甚至可能还很有钱，也就不敢肯定他会对她真正感到兴趣，这原是符合当时她复杂的心态。她不是一个穷苦的女工吗?
他不是大富翁的亲侄子吗?
当然，他是不会跟她结婚的。那末，他还想跟她建立什么样的正当关系呢?
不，她千万要小心提防他。
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