Good night."
"Good night," she said, almost inaudibly.
She entered, and, having closed the door, stood leaning against it for
several minutes. Bleakness and nausea threatened to overcome her anew,
and she felt that if she essayed another step she must collapse upon
the floor. Her maid was in bed, and had not been awakened by Rita's
entrance. After a time she managed to grope her way to her bedroom,
where, turning up the light, she sank down helplessly upon the bed.
Her mental state was peculiar, and her thoughts revolved about the
journey from Oxford Street homeward. A thousand times she mentally
repeated the journey, speaking the same words over and over again, and
hearing Monte Irvin's replies.
In those few minutes during which they had been together her
sentiments in regard to him had undergone a change. She had always
respected Irvin, but this respect had been curiously compounded of the
personal and the mercenary; his well-ordered establishment at Prince's
Gate had loomed behind the figure of the man forming a pleasing
background to the portrait. Without being showy he was a splendid
"match" for any woman. His wife would have access to good society, and
would enjoy every luxury that wealth could procure.
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