"That's odd. She stood on the mat instead, and looked down on him. That old world that
had shoved up that silly old hotel, and all the rest of it. These joyful bounds just lace into
the stuff of my memories and stay there forever. Was it that the struggle of things to survive produced as a sort of necessary byproduct these intense preferences and appreciations, or was it that some mystical
outer thing, some great force, drove life beautyward, even in spite of expediency,
regardless of survival value and all the manifest discretions of life? She went to
Capes with that riddle and put it to him very carefully and clearly, and he talked
well—he always talked at some length when she took a difficulty to him—and
sent her to a various literature upon the markings of butterflies, the
incomprehensible elaboration and splendor of birds of Paradise and hummingbirds’ plumes, the patterning of tigers, and a leopard’s spots. She saw nothing of their love-making, and came home from her
boarding-school in a state of decently suppressed curiosity for Alice’s wedding. All right, I’m coming. She seemed to have
no idea whatever of the emotional states that were becoming to her age and
position. "Thank you," she said, and left the office. I
believe I have always been in love with you. “You will sign the contract?”
“I shall sign the contract. I shall be
very sorry if I cannot have you for a friend.
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