It is now a point of view, differing
widely, as the ignorant man differs from the educated. Part 4
Interpretation came pouring down upon her almost blindingly; she understood
now the room, the waiter, the whole situation. She worried for her father in Mantua,
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hoping that he was still alive. “All right?” asked the man with the light eyelashes, suddenly appearing in the
doorway. A hush descended across the audience as instruments
tuned, creating small ladders of fifths that collapsed
abruptly, snatches of solos that disappeared and
reappeared like gags in a house of mirrors. All my plans have succeeded. One day I can be a Gothic chick,
and the next day I’ll be Hitler Youth. Even
the abstract paintings on the wall were gray. "Of course," rejoined the bystander, who had just spoken, and who was of a
cynical turn,—"the greater the rascal, the better they like him. Wild, Captain?" remonstrated the other, in a deferential
tone. But what else he saw fit to teach her I do not care to
stipulate. “Mean as an old mule, too. Why? While the
front of his mind was busy warning her not to fall into the hopeless miseries of
underpaid teaching, and explaining his idea that for women of initiative, quite as
much as for men, the world of business had by far the best chances, the back
chambers of his brain were busy with the problem of that “Why?”
His first idea as a man of the world was to explain her unrest by a lover, some
secret or forbidden or impossible lover.
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