As she hoisted her skirts near her waist, she thought ruefully of the last time she had worn such an elaborate gown, sometime near 1910 when petticoats were still considered hip everyday garb. Her eyes followed him. How clever she was, to fool everybody so easily! Not yet had any one suspected the truth: that she was, in a certain worldly sense, only four weeks old, that her every act had been written down on paper beforehand, and that her success lay in rigidly observing the rules which she herself had drafted to govern her conduct. His high brow was what caused all the ladies in town to covet him, it radiated intelligence but also something more primal. Of all crafts,—and it was the only craft his poor father, who, to do him justice, was one of the best workmen that ever handled a saw or drove a nail, could never understand,—of all crafts, I say, to be an honest man is the master-craft. But this revulsion was engulfed by the succeeding waves of pity and understanding. ’ ‘Oh, have you?’ grunted Gerald, surprising in himself a surge of some odd emotion at these words. "That is very kind of you, but I am on my way to America. I was certain of it. “I’ll run, too,” she volunteered. ’ ‘Lord,’ Gerald murmured, awed more by the outspokenness of his hostess than by what she had said. I didn’t know he had Italian relatives. She really must not go to that affair.
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