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She
would
not
have
done
so
,
he
knew
,
had
her
conscience
protested
;
but
she
probably
shared
the
family
view
that
Madame
Olenska
would
be
better
off
as
an
unhappy
wife
than
as
a
separated
one
,
and
that
there
was
no
use
in
discussing
the
case
with
Newland
,
who
had
an
awkward
way
of
suddenly
not
seeming
to
take
the
most
fundamental
things
for
granted.Archer
looked
up
and
met
his
visitor
's
anxious
gaze
.
"
Do
n't
you
know
,
Monsieur
--
is
it
possible
you
do
n't
know
--
that
the
family
begin
to
doubt
if
they
have
the
right
to
advise
the
Countess
to
refuse
her
husband
's
last
proposals
?
"
"
The
proposals
you
brought
?
"
"
The
proposals
I
brought
.
"
It
was
on
Archer
's
lips
to
exclaim
that
whatever
he
knew
or
did
not
know
was
no
concern
of
M.
Riviere
's
;
but
something
in
the
humble
and
yet
courageous
tenacity
of
M.
Riviere
's
gaze
made
him
reject
this
conclusion
,
and
he
met
the
young
man
's
question
with
another
.
"
What
is
your
object
in
speaking
to
me
of
this
?
"
He
had
not
to
wait
a
moment
for
the
answer
.
"
To
beg
you
,
Monsieur
--
to
beg
you
with
all
the
force
I
'm
capable
of
--
not
to
let
her
go
back
.
--
Oh
,
do
n't
let
her
!
"
M.
Riviere
exclaimed.Archer
looked
at
him
with
increasing
astonishment
.
There
was
no
mistaking
the
sincerity
of
his
distress
or
the
strength
of
his
determination
:
he
had
evidently
resolved
to
let
everything
go
by
the
board
but
the
supreme
need
of
thus
putting
himself
on
record
.
Archer
considered
.
"
May
I
ask
,
"
he
said
at
length
,
"
if
this
is
the
line
you
took
with
the
Countess
Olenska
?
"
M.
Riviere
reddened
,
but
his
eyes
did
not
falter
.
"
No
,
Monsieur
:
I
accepted
my
mission
in
good
faith
.
I
really
believed
--
for
reasons
I
need
not
trouble
you
with
--
that
it
would
be
better
for
Madame
Olenska
to
recover
her
situation
,
her
fortune
,
the
social
consideration
that
her
husband
's
standing
gives
her
.
"
"
So
I
supposed
:
you
could
hardly
have
accepted
such
a
mission
otherwise
.
"
"
I
should
not
have
accepted
it
.
"
"
Well
,
then
--
?
"
Archer
paused
again
,
and
their
eyes
met
in
another
protracted
scrutiny
.
"
Ah
,
Monsieur
,
after
I
had
seen
her
,
after
I
had
listened
to
her
,
I
knew
she
was
better
off
here
.
"
"
You
knew
--
?
"
"
Monsieur
,
I
discharged
my
mission
faithfully
:
I
put
the
Count
's
arguments
,
I
stated
his
offers
,
without
adding
any
comment
of
my
own
.
The
Countess
was
good
enough
to
listen
patiently
;
she
carried
her
goodness
so
far
as
to
see
me
twice
;
she
considered
impartially
all
I
had
come
to
say
.
And
it
was
in
the
course
of
these
two
talks
that
I
changed
my
mind
,
that
I
came
to
see
things
differently
.
"
"
May
I
ask
what
led
to
this
change
?
"
"
Simply
seeing
the
change
in
HER
,
"
M.
Riviere
replied
.
"
The
change
in
her
?
Then
you
knew
her
before
?
"
The
young
man
's
colour
again
rose
.
"
I
used
to
see
her
in
her
husband
's
house
.
I
have
known
Count
Olenski
for
many
years
.
You
can
imagine
that
he
would
not
have
sent
a
stranger
on
such
a
mission
.
"
Archer
's
gaze
,
wandering
away
to
the
blank
walls
of
the
office
,
rested
on
a
hanging
calendar
surmounted
by
the
rugged
features
of
the
President
of
the
United
States
.
That
such
a
conversation
should
be
going
on
anywhere
within
the
millions
of
square
miles
subject
to
his
rule
seemed
as
strange
as
anything
that
the
imagination
could
invent
.
"
The
change
--
what
sort
of
a
change
?
"
"
Ah
,
Monsieur
,
if
I
could
tell
you
!
"
M.
Riviere
paused
.
"
Tenez
--
the
discovery
,
I
suppose
,
of
what
I
'd
never
thought
of
before
:
that
she
's
an
American
.
And
that
if
you
're
an
American
of
HER
kind
--
of
your
kind
--
things
that
are
accepted
in
certain
other
societies
,
or
at
least
put
up
with
as
part
of
a
general
convenient
give-and-take
--
become
unthinkable
,
simply
unthinkable
.
If
Madame
Olenska
's
relations
understood
what
these
things
were
,
their
opposition
to
her
returning
would
no
doubt
be
as
unconditional
as
her
own
;
but
they
seem
to
regard
her
husband
's
wish
to
have
her
back
as
proof
of
an
irresistible
longing
for
domestic
life
.
"
M.
Riviere
paused
,
and
then
added
:
"
Whereas
it
's
far
from
being
as
simple
as
that
.
"
Archer
looked
back
to
the
President
of
the
United
States
,
and
then
down
at
his
desk
and
at
the
papers
scattered
on
it
.
For
a
second
or
two
he
could
not
trust
himself
to
speak
.
During
this
interval
he
heard
M.
Riviere
's
chair
pushed
back
,
and
was
aware
that
the
young
man
had
risen
.
When
he
glanced
up
again
he
saw
that
his
visitor
was
as
moved
as
himself
.
"
Thank
you
,
"
Archer
said
simply
.
"
There
's
nothing
to
thank
me
for
,
Monsieur
:
it
is
I
,
rather
--
"
M.
Riviere
broke
off
,
as
if
speech
for
him
too
were
difficult
.
"
I
should
like
,
though
,
"
he
continued
in
a
firmer
voice
,
"
to
add
one
thing
.
You
asked
me
if
I
was
in
Count
Olenski
's
employ
.
I
am
at
this
moment
:
I
returned
to
him
,
a
few
months
ago
,
for
reasons
of
private
necessity
such
as
may
happen
to
any
one
who
has
persons
,
ill
and
older
persons
,
dependent
on
him
But
from
the
moment
that
I
have
taken
the
step
of
coming
here
to
say
these
things
to
you
I
consider
myself
discharged
,
and
I
shall
tell
him
so
on
my
return
,
and
give
him
the
reasons
.
That
's
all
,
Monsieur
.
"
M.
Riviere
bowed
and
drew
back
a
step
.
"
Thank
you
,
"
Archer
said
again
,
as
their
hands
met
.
Every
year
on
the
fifteenth
of
October
Fifth
Avenue
opened
its
shutters
,
unrolled
its
carpets
and
hung
up
its
triple
layer
of
window-curtains
.
By
the
first
of
November
this
household
ritual
was
over
,
and
society
had
begun
to
look
about
and
take
stock
of
itself
.
By
the
fifteenth
the
season
was
in
full
blast
,
Opera
and
theatres
were
putting
forth
their
new
attractions
,
dinner-engagements
were
accumulating
,
and
dates
for
dances
being
fixed
.
And
punctually
at
about
this
time
Mrs.
Archer
always
said
that
New
York
was
very
much
changed.Observing
it
from
the
lofty
stand-point
of
a
non-participant
,
she
was
able
,
with
the
help
of
Mr.
Sillerton
Jackson
and
Miss
Sophy
,
to
trace
each
new
crack
in
its
surface
,
and
all
the
strange
weeds
pushing
up
between
the
ordered
rows
of
social
vegetables
.
It
had
been
one
of
the
amusements
of
Archer
's
youth
to
wait
for
this
annual
pronouncement
of
his
mother
's
,
and
to
hear
her
enumerate
the
minute
signs
of
disintegration
that
his
careless
gaze
had
overlooked
.
For
New
York
,
to
Mrs.
Archer
's
mind
,
never
changed
without
changing
for
the
worse
;
and
in
this
view
Miss
Sophy
Jackson
heartily
concurred.Mr
.
Sillerton
Jackson
,
as
became
a
man
of
the
world
,
suspended
his
judgment
and
listened
with
an
amused
impartiality
to
the
lamentations
of
the
ladies
.
But
even
he
never
denied
that
New
York
had
changed
;
and
Newland
Archer
,
in
the
winter
of
the
second
year
of
his
marriage
,
was
himself
obliged
to
admit
that
if
it
had
not
actually
changed
it
was
certainly
changing.These
points
had
been
raised
,
as
usual
,
at
Mrs.
Archer
's
Thanksgiving
dinner
.
At
the
date
when
she
was
officially
enjoined
to
give
thanks
for
the
blessings
of
the
year
it
was
her
habit
to
take
a
mournful
though
not
embittered
stock
of
her
world
,
and
wonder
what
there
was
to
be
thankful
for
.
At
any
rate
,
not
the
state
of
society
;
society
,
if
it
could
be
said
to
exist
,
was
rather
a
spectacle
on
which
to
call
down
Biblical
imprecations
--
and
in
fact
,
every
one
knew
what
the
Reverend
Dr.
Ashmore
meant
when
he
chose
a
text
from
Jeremiah
(
chap
.
ii.
,
verse
25
)
for
his
Thanksgiving
sermon
.
Dr.
Ashmore
,
the
new
Rector
of
St.
Matthew
's
,
had
been
chosen
because
he
was
very
"
advanced
"
:
his
sermons
were
considered
bold
in
thought
and
novel
in
language
.
When
he
fulminated
against
fashionable
society
he
always
spoke
of
its
"
trend
"
;
and
to
Mrs.
Archer
it
was
terrifying
and
yet
fascinating
to
feel
herself
part
of
a
community
that
was
trending
.
"
There
's
no
doubt
that
Dr.
Ashmore
is
right
:
there
IS
a
marked
trend
,
"
she
said
,
as
if
it
were
something
visible
and
measurable
,
like
a
crack
in
a
house
.
"
It
was
odd
,
though
,
to
preach
about
it
on
Thanksgiving
,
"
Miss
Jackson
opined
;
and
her
hostess
drily
rejoined
:
"
Oh
,
he
means
us
to
give
thanks
for
what
's
left
.
"
Archer
had
been
wont
to
smile
at
these
annual
vaticinations
of
his
mother
's
;
but
this
year
even
he
was
obliged
to
acknowledge
,
as
he
listened
to
an
enumeration
of
the
changes
,
that
the
"
trend
"
was
visible
.
"
The
extravagance
in
dress
--
"
Miss
Jackson
began
.
"
Sillerton
took
me
to
the
first
night
of
the
Opera
,
and
I
can
only
tell
you
that
Jane
Merry
's
dress
was
the
only
one
I
recognised
from
last
year
;
and
even
that
had
had
the
front
panel
changed
.
Yet
I
know
she
got
it
out
from
Worth
only
two
years
ago
,
because
my
seamstress
always
goes
in
to
make
over
her
Paris
dresses
before
she
wears
them
.
"
"
Ah
,
Jane
Merry
is
one
of
US
,
"
said
Mrs.
Archer
sighing
,
as
if
it
were
not
such
an
enviable
thing
to
be
in
an
age
when
ladies
were
beginning
to
flaunt
abroad
their
Paris
dresses
as
soon
as
they
were
out
of
the
Custom
House
,
instead
of
letting
them
mellow
under
lock
and
key
,
in
the
manner
of
Mrs.
Archer
's
contemporaries
.
"
Yes
;
she
's
one
of
the
few
.
In
my
youth
,
"
Miss
Jackson
rejoined
,
"
it
was
considered
vulgar
to
dress
in
the
newest
fashions
;
and
Amy
Sillerton
has
always
told
me
that
in
Boston
the
rule
was
to
put
away
one
's
Paris
dresses
for
two
years
.
Old
Mrs.
Baxter
Pennilow
,
who
did
everything
handsomely
,
used
to
import
twelve
a
year
,
two
velvet
,
two
satin
,
two
silk
,
and
the
other
six
of
poplin
and
the
finest
cashmere
.
It
was
a
standing
order
,
and
as
she
was
ill
for
two
years
before
she
died
they
found
forty-eight
Worth
dresses
that
had
never
been
taken
out
of
tissue
paper
;
and
when
the
girls
left
off
their
mourning
they
were
able
to
wear
the
first
lot
at
the
Symphony
concerts
without
looking
in
advance
of
the
fashion
.
"
"
Ah
,
well
,
Boston
is
more
conservative
than
New
York
;
but
I
always
think
it
's
a
safe
rule
for
a
lady
to
lay
aside
her
French
dresses
for
one
season
,
"
Mrs.
Archer
conceded
.
"
It
was
Beaufort
who
started
the
new
fashion
by
making
his
wife
clap
her
new
clothes
on
her
back
as
soon
as
they
arrived
:
I
must
say
at
times
it
takes
all
Regina
's
distinction
not
to
look
like
...
like
...
"
Miss
Jackson
glanced
around
the
table
,
caught
Janey
's
bulging
gaze
,
and
took
refuge
in
an
unintelligible
murmur
.
"
Like
her
rivals
,
"
said
Mr.
Sillerton
Jackson
,
with
the
air
of
producing
an
epigram
.
"
Oh
,
--
"
the
ladies
murmured
;
and
Mrs.
Archer
added
,
partly
to
distract
her
daughter
's
attention
from
forbidden
topics
:
"
Poor
Regina
!
Her
Thanksgiving
has
n't
been
a
very
cheerful
one
,
I
'm
afraid
.
Have
you
heard
the
rumours
about
Beaufort
's
speculations
,
Sillerton
?
"
Mr.
Jackson
nodded
carelessly
.
Every
one
had
heard
the
rumours
in
question
,
and
he
scorned
to
confirm
a
tale
that
was
already
common
property.A
gloomy
silence
fell
upon
the
party
.
No
one
really
liked
Beaufort
,
and
it
was
not
wholly
unpleasant
to
think
the
worst
of
his
private
life
;
but
the
idea
of
his
having
brought
financial
dishonour
on
his
wife
's
family
was
too
shocking
to
be
enjoyed
even
by
his
enemies
.
Archer
's
New
York
tolerated
hypocrisy
in
private
relations
;
but
in
business
matters
it
exacted
a
limpid
and
impeccable
honesty
.
It
was
a
long
time
since
any
well-known
banker
had
failed
discreditably
;
but
every
one
remembered
the
social
extinction
visited
on
the
heads
of
the
firm
when
the
last
event
of
the
kind
had
happened
.
It
would
be
the
same
with
the
Beauforts
,
in
spite
of
his
power
and
her
popularity
;
not
all
the
leagued
strength
of
the
Dallas
connection
would
save
poor
Regina
if
there
were
any
truth
in
the
reports
of
her
husband
's
unlawful
speculations.The
talk
took
refuge
in
less
ominous
topics
;
but
everything
they
touched
on
seemed
to
confirm
Mrs.
Archer
's
sense
of
an
accelerated
trend
.
"
Of
course
,
Newland
,
I
know
you
let
dear
May
go
to
Mrs.
Struthers
's
Sunday
evenings
--
"
she
began
;
and
May
interposed
gaily
:
"
Oh
,
you
know
,
everybody
goes
to
Mrs.
Struthers
's
now
;
and
she
was
invited
to
Granny
's
last
reception
.
"
It
was
thus
,
Archer
reflected
,
that
New
York
managed
its
transitions
:
conspiring
to
ignore
them
till
they
were
well
over
,
and
then
,
in
all
good
faith
,
imagining
that
they
had
taken
place
in
a
preceding
age
.
There
was
always
a
traitor
in
the
citadel
;
and
after
he
(
or
generally
she
)
had
surrendered
the
keys
,
what
was
the
use
of
pretending
that
it
was
impregnable
?
Once
people
had
tasted
of
Mrs.
Struthers
's
easy
Sunday
hospitality
they
were
not
likely
to
sit
at
home
remembering
that
her
champagne
was
transmuted
Shoe-Polish
.
"
I
know
,
dear
,
I
know
,
"
Mrs.
Archer
sighed
.
"
Such
things
have
to
be
,
I
suppose
,
as
long
as
AMUSEMENT
is
what
people
go
out
for
;
but
I
've
never
quite
forgiven
your
cousin
Madame
Olenska
for
being
the
first
person
to
countenance
Mrs.
Struthers
.
"
A
sudden
blush
rose
to
young
Mrs.
Archer
's
face
;
it
surprised
her
husband
as
much
as
the
other
guests
about
the
table
.
"
Oh
,
ELLEN
--
"
she
murmured
,
much
in
the
same
accusing
and
yet
deprecating
tone
in
which
her
parents
might
have
said
:
"
Oh
,
THE
BLENKERS
--
.
"
It
was
the
note
which
the
family
had
taken
to
sounding
on
the
mention
of
the
Countess
Olenska
's
name
,
since
she
had
surprised
and
inconvenienced
them
by
remaining
obdurate
to
her
husband
's
advances
;
but
on
May
's
lips
it
gave
food
for
thought
,
and
Archer
looked
at
her
with
the
sense
of
strangeness
that
sometimes
came
over
him
when
she
was
most
in
the
tone
of
her
environment.His
mother
,
with
less
than
her
usual
sensitiveness
to
atmosphere
,
still
insisted
:
"
I
've
always
thought
that
people
like
the
Countess
Olenska
,
who
have
lived
in
aristocratic
societies
,
ought
to
help
us
to
keep
up
our
social
distinctions
,
instead
of
ignoring
them
.
"
May
's
blush
remained
permanently
vivid
:
it
seemed
to
have
a
significance
beyond
that
implied
by
the
recognition
of
Madame
Olenska
's
social
bad
faith
.
"
I
've
no
doubt
we
all
seem
alike
to
foreigners
,
"
said
Miss
Jackson
tartly
.
"
I
do
n't
think
Ellen
cares
for
society
;
but
nobody
knows
exactly
what
she
does
care
for
,
"
May
continued
,
as
if
she
had
been
groping
for
something
noncommittal
.
"
Ah
,
well
--
"
Mrs.
Archer
sighed
again.Everybody
knew
that
the
Countess
Olenska
was
no
longer
in
the
good
graces
of
her
family
.
Even
her
devoted
champion
,
old
Mrs.
Manson
Mingott
,
had
been
unable
to
defend
her
refusal
to
return
to
her
husband
.
The
Mingotts
had
not
proclaimed
their
disapproval
aloud
:
their
sense
of
solidarity
was
too
strong
.
They
had
simply
,
as
Mrs.
Welland
said
,
"
let
poor
Ellen
find
her
own
level
"
--
and
that
,
mortifyingly
and
incomprehensibly
,
was
in
the
dim
depths
where
the
Blenkers
prevailed
,
and
"
people
who
wrote
"
celebrated
their
untidy
rites
.
