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It
was
incredible
,
but
it
was
a
fact
,
that
Ellen
,
in
spite
of
all
her
opportunities
and
her
privileges
,
had
become
simply
"
Bohemian
.
"
The
fact
enforced
the
contention
that
she
had
made
a
fatal
mistake
in
not
returning
to
Count
Olenski
.
After
all
,
a
young
woman
's
place
was
under
her
husband
's
roof
,
especially
when
she
had
left
it
in
circumstances
that
...
well
...
if
one
had
cared
to
look
into
them
...
"
Madame
Olenska
is
a
great
favourite
with
the
gentlemen
,
"
said
Miss
Sophy
,
with
her
air
of
wishing
to
put
forth
something
conciliatory
when
she
knew
that
she
was
planting
a
dart
.
"
Ah
,
that
's
the
danger
that
a
young
woman
like
Madame
Olenska
is
always
exposed
to
,
"
Mrs.
Archer
mournfully
agreed
;
and
the
ladies
,
on
this
conclusion
,
gathered
up
their
trains
to
seek
the
carcel
globes
of
the
drawing-room
,
while
Archer
and
Mr.
Sillerton
Jackson
withdrew
to
the
Gothic
library.Once
established
before
the
grate
,
and
consoling
himself
for
the
inadequacy
of
the
dinner
by
the
perfection
of
his
cigar
,
Mr.
Jackson
became
portentous
and
communicable
.
"
If
the
Beaufort
smash
comes
,
"
he
announced
,
"
there
are
going
to
be
disclosures
.
"
Archer
raised
his
head
quickly
:
he
could
never
hear
the
name
without
the
sharp
vision
of
Beaufort
's
heavy
figure
,
opulently
furred
and
shod
,
advancing
through
the
snow
at
Skuytercliff
.
"
There
's
bound
to
be
,
"
Mr.
Jackson
continued
,
"
the
nastiest
kind
of
a
cleaning
up
.
He
has
n't
spent
all
his
money
on
Regina
.
"
"
Oh
,
well
--
that
's
discounted
,
is
n't
it
?
My
belief
is
he
'll
pull
out
yet
,
"
said
the
young
man
,
wanting
to
change
the
subject
.
"
Perhaps
--
perhaps
.
I
know
he
was
to
see
some
of
the
influential
people
today
.
Of
course
,
"
Mr.
Jackson
reluctantly
conceded
,
"
it
's
to
be
hoped
they
can
tide
him
over
--
this
time
anyhow
.
I
should
n't
like
to
think
of
poor
Regina
's
spending
the
rest
of
her
life
in
some
shabby
foreign
watering-place
for
bankrupts
.
"
Archer
said
nothing
.
It
seemed
to
him
so
natural
--
however
tragic
--
that
money
ill-gotten
should
be
cruelly
expiated
,
that
his
mind
,
hardly
lingering
over
Mrs.
Beaufort
's
doom
,
wandered
back
to
closer
questions
.
What
was
the
meaning
of
May
's
blush
when
the
Countess
Olenska
had
been
mentioned?Four
months
had
passed
since
the
midsummer
day
that
he
and
Madame
Olenska
had
spent
together
;
and
since
then
he
had
not
seen
her
.
He
knew
that
she
had
returned
to
Washington
,
to
the
little
house
which
she
and
Medora
Manson
had
taken
there
:
he
had
written
to
her
once
--
a
few
words
,
asking
when
they
were
to
meet
again
--
and
she
had
even
more
briefly
replied
:
"
Not
yet
.
"
Since
then
there
had
been
no
farther
communication
between
them
,
and
he
had
built
up
within
himself
a
kind
of
sanctuary
in
which
she
throned
among
his
secret
thoughts
and
longings
.
Little
by
little
it
became
the
scene
of
his
real
life
,
of
his
only
rational
activities
;
thither
he
brought
the
books
he
read
,
the
ideas
and
feelings
which
nourished
him
,
his
judgments
and
his
visions
.
Outside
it
,
in
the
scene
of
his
actual
life
,
he
moved
with
a
growing
sense
of
unreality
and
insufficiency
,
blundering
against
familiar
prejudices
and
traditional
points
of
view
as
an
absent-minded
man
goes
on
bumping
into
the
furniture
of
his
own
room
.
Absent
--
that
was
what
he
was
:
so
absent
from
everything
most
densely
real
and
near
to
those
about
him
that
it
sometimes
startled
him
to
find
they
still
imagined
he
was
there.He
became
aware
that
Mr.
Jackson
was
clearing
his
throat
preparatory
to
farther
revelations
.
"
I
do
n't
know
,
of
course
,
how
far
your
wife
's
family
are
aware
of
what
people
say
about
--
well
,
about
Madame
Olenska
's
refusal
to
accept
her
husband
's
latest
offer
.
"
Archer
was
silent
,
and
Mr.
Jackson
obliquely
continued
:
"
It
's
a
pity
--
it
's
certainly
a
pity
--
that
she
refused
it
.
"
"
A
pity
?
In
God
's
name
,
why
?
"
Mr.
Jackson
looked
down
his
leg
to
the
unwrinkled
sock
that
joined
it
to
a
glossy
pump
.
"
Well
--
to
put
it
on
the
lowest
ground
--
what
's
she
going
to
live
on
now
?
"
"
Now
--
?
"
"
If
Beaufort
--
"
Archer
sprang
up
,
his
fist
banging
down
on
the
black
walnut-edge
of
the
writing-table
.
The
wells
of
the
brass
double-inkstand
danced
in
their
sockets
.
"
What
the
devil
do
you
mean
,
sir
?
"
Mr.
Jackson
,
shifting
himself
slightly
in
his
chair
,
turned
a
tranquil
gaze
on
the
young
man
's
burning
face
.
"
Well
--
I
have
it
on
pretty
good
authority
--
in
fact
,
on
old
Catherine
's
herself
--
that
the
family
reduced
Countess
Olenska
's
allowance
considerably
when
she
definitely
refused
to
go
back
to
her
husband
;
and
as
,
by
this
refusal
,
she
also
forfeits
the
money
settled
on
her
when
she
married
--
which
Olenski
was
ready
to
make
over
to
her
if
she
returned
--
why
,
what
the
devil
do
YOU
mean
,
my
dear
boy
,
by
asking
me
what
I
mean
?
"
Mr.
Jackson
good-humouredly
retorted.Archer
moved
toward
the
mantelpiece
and
bent
over
to
knock
his
ashes
into
the
grate
.
"
I
do
n't
know
anything
of
Madame
Olenska
's
private
affairs
;
but
I
do
n't
need
to
,
to
be
certain
that
what
you
insinuate
--
"
"
Oh
,
I
do
n't
:
it
's
Lefferts
,
for
one
,
"
Mr.
Jackson
interposed
.
"
Lefferts
--
who
made
love
to
her
and
got
snubbed
for
it
!
"
Archer
broke
out
contemptuously
.
"
Ah
--
DID
he
?
"
snapped
the
other
,
as
if
this
were
exactly
the
fact
he
had
been
laying
a
trap
for
.
He
still
sat
sideways
from
the
fire
,
so
that
his
hard
old
gaze
held
Archer
's
face
as
if
in
a
spring
of
steel
.
"
Well
,
well
:
it
's
a
pity
she
did
n't
go
back
before
Beaufort
's
cropper
,
"
he
repeated
.
"
If
she
goes
NOW
,
and
if
he
fails
,
it
will
only
confirm
the
general
impression
:
which
is
n't
by
any
means
peculiar
to
Lefferts
,
by
the
way
.
"
"
Oh
,
she
wo
n't
go
back
now
:
less
than
ever
!
"
Archer
had
no
sooner
said
it
than
he
had
once
more
the
feeling
that
it
was
exactly
what
Mr.
Jackson
had
been
waiting
for.The
old
gentleman
considered
him
attentively
.
"
That
's
your
opinion
,
eh
?
Well
,
no
doubt
you
know
.
But
everybody
will
tell
you
that
the
few
pennies
Medora
Manson
has
left
are
all
in
Beaufort
's
hands
;
and
how
the
two
women
are
to
keep
their
heads
above
water
unless
he
does
,
I
ca
n't
imagine
.
Of
course
,
Madame
Olenska
may
still
soften
old
Catherine
,
who
's
been
the
most
inexorably
opposed
to
her
staying
;
and
old
Catherine
could
make
her
any
allowance
she
chooses
.
But
we
all
know
that
she
hates
parting
with
good
money
;
and
the
rest
of
the
family
have
no
particular
interest
in
keeping
Madame
Olenska
here
.
"
Archer
was
burning
with
unavailing
wrath
:
he
was
exactly
in
the
state
when
a
man
is
sure
to
do
something
stupid
,
knowing
all
the
while
that
he
is
doing
it.He
saw
that
Mr.
Jackson
had
been
instantly
struck
by
the
fact
that
Madame
Olenska
's
differences
with
her
grandmother
and
her
other
relations
were
not
known
to
him
,
and
that
the
old
gentleman
had
drawn
his
own
conclusions
as
to
the
reasons
for
Archer
's
exclusion
from
the
family
councils
.
This
fact
warned
Archer
to
go
warily
;
but
the
insinuations
about
Beaufort
made
him
reckless
.
He
was
mindful
,
however
,
if
not
of
his
own
danger
,
at
least
of
the
fact
that
Mr.
Jackson
was
under
his
mother
's
roof
,
and
consequently
his
guest
.
Old
New
York
scrupulously
observed
the
etiquette
of
hospitality
,
and
no
discussion
with
a
guest
was
ever
allowed
to
degenerate
into
a
disagreement
.
"
Shall
we
go
up
and
join
my
mother
?
"
he
suggested
curtly
,
as
Mr.
Jackson
's
last
cone
of
ashes
dropped
into
the
brass
ashtray
at
his
elbow.On
the
drive
homeward
May
remained
oddly
silent
;
through
the
darkness
,
he
still
felt
her
enveloped
in
her
menacing
blush
.
What
its
menace
meant
he
could
not
guess
:
but
he
was
sufficiently
warned
by
the
fact
that
Madame
Olenska
's
name
had
evoked
it.They
went
upstairs
,
and
he
turned
into
the
library
.
She
usually
followed
him
;
but
he
heard
her
passing
down
the
passage
to
her
bedroom
.
"
May
!
"
he
called
out
impatiently
;
and
she
came
back
,
with
a
slight
glance
of
surprise
at
his
tone
.
"
This
lamp
is
smoking
again
;
I
should
think
the
servants
might
see
that
it
's
kept
properly
trimmed
,
"
he
grumbled
nervously
.
"
I
'm
so
sorry
:
it
sha
n't
happen
again
,
"
she
answered
,
in
the
firm
bright
tone
she
had
learned
from
her
mother
;
and
it
exasperated
Archer
to
feel
that
she
was
already
beginning
to
humour
him
like
a
younger
Mr.
Welland
.
She
bent
over
to
lower
the
wick
,
and
as
the
light
struck
up
on
her
white
shoulders
and
the
clear
curves
of
her
face
he
thought
:
"
How
young
she
is
!
For
what
endless
years
this
life
will
have
to
go
on
!
"
He
felt
,
with
a
kind
of
horror
,
his
own
strong
youth
and
the
bounding
blood
in
his
veins
.
"
Look
here
,
"
he
said
suddenly
,
"
I
may
have
to
go
to
Washington
for
a
few
days
--
soon
;
next
week
perhaps
.
"
Her
hand
remained
on
the
key
of
the
lamp
as
she
turned
to
him
slowly
.
The
heat
from
its
flame
had
brought
back
a
glow
to
her
face
,
but
it
paled
as
she
looked
up
.
"
On
business
?
"
she
asked
,
in
a
tone
which
implied
that
there
could
be
no
other
conceivable
reason
,
and
that
she
had
put
the
question
automatically
,
as
if
merely
to
finish
his
own
sentence
.
"
On
business
,
naturally
.
There
's
a
patent
case
coming
up
before
the
Supreme
Court
--
"
He
gave
the
name
of
the
inventor
,
and
went
on
furnishing
details
with
all
Lawrence
Lefferts
's
practised
glibness
,
while
she
listened
attentively
,
saying
at
intervals
:
"
Yes
,
I
see
.
"
"
The
change
will
do
you
good
,
"
she
said
simply
,
when
he
had
finished
;
"
and
you
must
be
sure
to
go
and
see
Ellen
,
"
she
added
,
looking
him
straight
in
the
eyes
with
her
cloudless
smile
,
and
speaking
in
the
tone
she
might
have
employed
in
urging
him
not
to
neglect
some
irksome
family
duty
It
was
the
only
word
that
passed
between
them
on
the
subject
;
but
in
the
code
in
which
they
had
both
been
trained
it
meant
:
"
Of
course
you
understand
that
I
know
all
that
people
have
been
saying
about
Ellen
,
and
heartily
sympathise
with
my
family
in
their
effort
to
get
her
to
return
to
her
husband
.
I
also
know
that
,
for
some
reason
you
have
not
chosen
to
tell
me
,
you
have
advised
her
against
this
course
,
which
all
the
older
men
of
the
family
,
as
well
as
our
grandmother
,
agree
in
approving
;
and
that
it
is
owing
to
your
encouragement
that
Ellen
defies
us
all
,
and
exposes
herself
to
the
kind
of
criticism
of
which
Mr.
Sillerton
Jackson
probably
gave
you
,
this
evening
,
the
hint
that
has
made
you
so
irritable
...
Hints
have
indeed
not
been
wanting
;
but
since
you
appear
unwilling
to
take
them
from
others
,
I
offer
you
this
one
myself
,
in
the
only
form
in
which
well-bred
people
of
our
kind
can
communicate
unpleasant
things
to
each
other
:
by
letting
you
understand
that
I
know
you
mean
to
see
Ellen
when
you
are
in
Washington
,
and
are
perhaps
going
there
expressly
for
that
purpose
;
and
that
,
since
you
are
sure
to
see
her
,
I
wish
you
to
do
so
with
my
full
and
explicit
approval
--
and
to
take
the
opportunity
of
letting
her
know
what
the
course
of
conduct
you
have
encouraged
her
in
is
likely
to
lead
to
.
"
Her
hand
was
still
on
the
key
of
the
lamp
when
the
last
word
of
this
mute
message
reached
him
.
She
turned
the
wick
down
,
lifted
off
the
globe
,
and
breathed
on
the
sulky
flame
.
"
They
smell
less
if
one
blows
them
out
,
"
she
explained
,
with
her
bright
housekeeping
air
.
On
the
threshold
she
turned
and
paused
for
his
kiss
.
Wall
Street
,
the
next
day
,
had
more
reassuring
reports
of
Beaufort
's
situation
.
They
were
not
definite
,
but
they
were
hopeful
.
It
was
generally
understood
that
he
could
call
on
powerful
influences
in
case
of
emergency
,
and
that
he
had
done
so
with
success
;
and
that
evening
,
when
Mrs.
Beaufort
appeared
at
the
Opera
wearing
her
old
smile
and
a
new
emerald
necklace
,
society
drew
a
breath
of
relief.New
York
was
inexorable
in
its
condemnation
of
business
irregularities
.
So
far
there
had
been
no
exception
to
its
tacit
rule
that
those
who
broke
the
law
of
probity
must
pay
;
and
every
one
was
aware
that
even
Beaufort
and
Beaufort
's
wife
would
be
offered
up
unflinchingly
to
this
principle
.
But
to
be
obliged
to
offer
them
up
would
be
not
only
painful
but
inconvenient
.
The
disappearance
of
the
Beauforts
would
leave
a
considerable
void
in
their
compact
little
circle
;
and
those
who
were
too
ignorant
or
too
careless
to
shudder
at
the
moral
catastrophe
bewailed
in
advance
the
loss
of
the
best
ball-room
in
New
York.Archer
had
definitely
made
up
his
mind
to
go
to
Washington
.
He
was
waiting
only
for
the
opening
of
the
law-suit
of
which
he
had
spoken
to
May
,
so
that
its
date
might
coincide
with
that
of
his
visit
;
but
on
the
following
Tuesday
he
learned
from
Mr.
Letterblair
that
the
case
might
be
postponed
for
several
weeks
.
Nevertheless
,
he
went
home
that
afternoon
determined
in
any
event
to
leave
the
next
evening
.
The
chances
were
that
May
,
who
knew
nothing
of
his
professional
life
,
and
had
never
shown
any
interest
in
it
,
would
not
learn
of
the
postponement
,
should
it
take
place
,
nor
remember
the
names
of
the
litigants
if
they
were
mentioned
before
her
;
and
at
any
rate
he
could
no
longer
put
off
seeing
Madame
Olenska
.
There
were
too
many
things
that
he
must
say
to
her.On
the
Wednesday
morning
,
when
he
reached
his
office
,
Mr.
Letterblair
met
him
with
a
troubled
face
.
Beaufort
,
after
all
,
had
not
managed
to
"
tide
over
"
;
but
by
setting
afloat
the
rumour
that
he
had
done
so
he
had
reassured
his
depositors
,
and
heavy
payments
had
poured
into
the
bank
till
the
previous
evening
,
when
disturbing
reports
again
began
to
predominate
.
In
consequence
,
a
run
on
the
bank
had
begun
,
and
its
doors
were
likely
to
close
before
the
day
was
over
.
The
ugliest
things
were
being
said
of
Beaufort
's
dastardly
manoeuvre
,
and
his
failure
promised
to
be
one
of
the
most
discreditable
in
the
history
of
Wall
Street.The
extent
of
the
calamity
left
Mr.
Letterblair
white
and
incapacitated
.
"
I
've
seen
bad
things
in
my
time
;
but
nothing
as
bad
as
this
.
Everybody
we
know
will
be
hit
,
one
way
or
another
.
And
what
will
be
done
about
Mrs.
Beaufort
?
What
CAN
be
done
about
her
?
I
pity
Mrs.
Manson
Mingott
as
much
as
anybody
:
coming
at
her
age
,
there
's
no
knowing
what
effect
this
affair
may
have
on
her
.
She
always
believed
in
Beaufort
--
she
made
a
friend
of
him
!
And
there
's
the
whole
Dallas
connection
:
poor
Mrs.
Beaufort
is
related
to
every
one
of
you
.
Her
only
chance
would
be
to
leave
her
husband
--
yet
how
can
any
one
tell
her
so
?
Her
duty
is
at
his
side
;
and
luckily
she
seems
always
to
have
been
blind
to
his
private
weaknesses
.
"
There
was
a
knock
,
and
Mr.
Letterblair
turned
his
head
sharply
.
"
What
is
it
?
I
ca
n't
be
disturbed
.
"
A
clerk
brought
in
a
letter
for
Archer
and
withdrew
.
Recognising
his
wife
's
hand
,
the
young
man
opened
the
envelope
and
read
:
"
Wo
n't
you
please
come
up
town
as
early
as
you
can
?
Granny
had
a
slight
stroke
last
night
.
In
some
mysterious
way
she
found
out
before
any
one
else
this
awful
news
about
the
bank
.
Uncle
Lovell
is
away
shooting
,
and
the
idea
of
the
disgrace
has
made
poor
Papa
so
nervous
that
he
has
a
temperature
and
ca
n't
leave
his
room
.
Mamma
needs
you
dreadfully
,
and
I
do
hope
you
can
get
away
at
once
and
go
straight
to
Granny
's
.
"
Archer
handed
the
note
to
his
senior
partner
,
and
a
few
minutes
later
was
crawling
northward
in
a
crowded
horse-car
,
which
he
exchanged
at
Fourteenth
Street
for
one
of
the
high
staggering
omnibuses
of
the
Fifth
Avenue
line
.
It
was
after
twelve
o'clock
when
this
laborious
vehicle
dropped
him
at
old
Catherine
's
.
The
sitting-room
window
on
the
ground
floor
,
where
she
usually
throned
,
was
tenanted
by
the
inadequate
figure
of
her
daughter
,
Mrs.
Welland
,
who
signed
a
haggard
welcome
as
she
caught
sight
of
Archer
;
and
at
the
door
he
was
met
by
May
.
The
hall
wore
the
unnatural
appearance
peculiar
to
well-kept
houses
suddenly
invaded
by
illness
:
wraps
and
furs
lay
in
heaps
on
the
chairs
,
a
doctor
's
bag
and
overcoat
were
on
the
table
,
and
beside
them
letters
and
cards
had
already
piled
up
unheeded
.
