But here I was, wrapped in
luxurious furs, rolling gloriously through the park at twilight on a
brilliant autumn evening; and the confiscation of property seems so
much more startling a proposition when you are in immediate contact
with it! This principle, which explains the "opportunism" of
Socialist cabinet-ministers and Labour M.P.s may be used to account
for the sudden resolve which I had taken, that for this afternoon at
least Mrs. Douglas van Tuiver should not discover that I was either
a divorced woman, or a soap-box orator of the revolution.
9. Sylvia, in that first conversation, told me much about herself
that she did not know she was telling. I became fairly certain, for
instance, that she had not married Mr. Douglas van Tuiver for love.
The young girl who has so married does not suffer from ennui in the
first year, nor does she find her happiness depending upon her
ability to solve the problem of charity in connection with her
husband's wealth.
She would have ridden and talked longer, she said, but for a dinner
engagement. She asked me to call on her, and I promised to come some
morning, as soon as she set a day. When the car drew up before the
door of her home, I thought of my first ride about the city in the
"rubber-neck wagon," and how I had stared when the lecturer pointed
out this mansion.
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