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Look here, Susy ..." he caught her by
the arm as the taxi drewup at her hotel .... "Tell her I understand, will
you? I'drather like her to know that .... ""I'll tell her,
Nelson," she promised; and climbed the stairsalone to her dreary room.
Susy's one fear was that Strefford, when
he returned the nextday, should treat their talk of the previous evening as a
fit of"nerves" to be jested away. He might, indeed, resent
herbehaviour too deeply to seek to see her at once; but hiseasygoing modern
attitude toward conduct and convictions madethat improbable. She had an idea
that what he had most mindedwas her dropping so unceremoniously out of the
Embassy Dinner.
But, after all, why should she see him
again? She had hadenough of explanations during the last months to have
learnedhow seldom they explain anything. If the other person did notunderstand
at the first word, at the first glance even,subsequent elucidations served only
to deepen the obscurity.
And she wanted above all--and especially
since her hour withNelson Vanderlyn--to keep herself free, aloof, to retain
herhold on her precariously recovered self. She sat down and wroteto
Strefford--and the letter was only a little less painful towrite than the one
she had despatched to Nick. It was not thather own feelings were in any like
measure engaged; but because,as the decision to give up Strefford affirmed
itself, sheremembered only his kindness, his forbearance, his good humour,and
all the other qualities she had always liked in him; andbecause she felt
ashamed of the hesitations which must cause himso much pain and humiliation.
Yes: humiliation chiefly. Sheknew that what she had to say would hurt his
pride, in whateverway she framed her renunciation; and her pen wavered, hating
itstask. Then she remembered Vanderlyn's words about his wife:
"There are some of our old times I
don't suppose I shall everforget--" and a phrase of Grace Fulmer's that
she had but halfgrasped at the time: "You haven't been married long enough
tounderstand how trifling such things seem in the balance of
one'smemories."Here were two people who had penetrated farther than she
intothe labyrinth of the wedded state, and struggled through some ofits
thorniest passages; and yet both, one consciously, the otherhalf-unaware,
testified to the mysterious fact which was alreadydawning on her: that the
influence of a marriage begun inmutual understanding is too deep not to
reassert itself even inthe moment of flight and denial.
"The real reason is that you're not
Nick" was what she wouldhave said to Strefford if she had dared to set
down the baretruth; and she knew that, whatever she wrote, he was too acutenot
to read that into it.
"He'll think it's because I'm still
in love with Nick ... andperhaps I am. But even if I were, the difference
doesn't seemto lie there, after all, but deeper, in things we've shared
thatseem to be meant to outlast love, or to change it into somethingdifferent."
If she could have hoped to make Streffordunderstand that, the letter would have
been easy enough towrite--but she knew just at what point his imagination
wouldfail, in what obvious and superficial inferences it would rest"Poor
Streff--poor me!" she thought as she sealed the letter.