She went down, flushed and light-hearted, to the Widgetts’
after lunch to make some final arrangements and then, as soon as her aunt had
retired to lie down for her usual digestive hour, took the risk of the servants
having the enterprise to report her proceedings and carried her bag and hold-all
to the garden gate, whence Teddy, in a state of ecstatic service, bore them to the
railway station. The very
blank, however, affected him more deeply than if it had been left. So,
instead, they talked of dancing and what it might mean in a human life. Only she hadn’t. "Come down, sirrah, and I'll teach you how to deface my walls in
future. She was never able to
trace the changes her attitude had undergone, from the time when she believed
herself to be the pampered Queen of Fortune, the crown of a good man’s love
(and secretly, but nobly, worshipping some one else), to the time when she
realized she was in fact just a mannequin for her lover’s imagination, and that he
cared no more for the realities of her being, for the things she felt and desired,
for the passions and dreams that might move her, than a child cares for the
sawdust in its doll. He hadn't followed this angle of thought
in ten years: what he might have been, with a little shrewd selfishness. Happy
Thanksgiving.
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