There are sentimental and traditional deferences and
reverences, I know, between father and son; but that’s just exactly what prevents
the development of an easy friendship. For her it
was sufficient to know that somebody wanted her, that never again would she be
alone, that always this boy with the dreams would be depending upon her. For the most part these
were detached people: men practising the plastic arts, young writers, young men
in employment, a very large proportion of girls and women—self-supporting
women or girls of the student class. Senior year started with a whimper. Afterward she
wanted to get her letter to her father back in order to read it over again, and, if it
tallied with her general impression of it, re-write it. "Are you sure these bars
touch the ground?"
"They come within a yard of it," answered Jonathan. "
"Her release would be a mercy," pursued the matron. She stood looking
down upon him with dilated eyes. Do you understand?’
‘Aye, sir. Had he not said so? Not that she wished him to
marry her. The action did not pass unnoticed by Sheppard. Capes stood side by side upon an old Persian carpet that
did duty as a hearthrug in the dining-room of their flat and surveyed a shining
dinner-table set for four people, lit by skilfully-shaded electric lights, brightened
by frequent gleams of silver, and carefully and simply adorned with sweet-pea
blossom. The jealous burn at his eyes
subsided and his finger came up.
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