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For
Benjamin
the
rest
of
the
evening
was
bathed
in
a
honey-coloured
mist
.
Hildegarde
gave
him
two
more
dances
,
and
they
discovered
that
they
were
marvellously
in
accord
on
all
the
questions
of
the
day
.
She
was
to
go
driving
with
him
on
the
following
Sunday
,
and
then
they
would
discuss
all
these
questions
further
.
Going
home
in
the
phaeton
just
before
the
crack
of
dawn
,
when
the
first
bees
were
humming
and
the
fading
moon
glimmered
in
the
cool
dew
,
Benjamin
knew
vaguely
that
his
father
was
discussing
wholesale
hardware
.
"
...
.
And
what
do
you
think
should
merit
our
biggest
attention
after
hammers
and
nails
?
"
the
elder
Button
was
saying
.
"
Love
,
"
replied
Benjamin
absent-mindedly
.
"
Lugs
?
"
exclaimed
Roger
Button
,
"
Why
,
I
've
just
covered
the
question
of
lugs
.
"
Benjamin
regarded
him
with
dazed
eyes
just
as
the
eastern
sky
was
suddenly
cracked
with
light
,
and
an
oriole
yawned
piercingly
in
the
quickening
trees
...
When
,
six
months
later
,
the
engagement
of
Miss
Hildegarde
Moncrief
to
Mr.
Benjamin
Button
was
made
known
(
I
say
"
made
known
,
"
for
General
Moncrief
declared
he
would
rather
fall
upon
his
sword
than
announce
it
)
,
the
excitement
in
Baltimore
society
reached
a
feverish
pitch
.
The
almost
forgotten
story
of
Benjamin
's
birth
was
remembered
and
sent
out
upon
the
winds
of
scandal
in
picaresque
and
incredible
forms
.
It
was
said
that
Benjamin
was
really
the
father
of
Roger
Button
,
that
he
was
his
brother
who
had
been
in
prison
for
forty
years
,
that
he
was
John
Wilkes
Booth
in
disguise
--
and
,
finally
,
that
he
had
two
small
conical
horns
sprouting
from
his
head
.
The
Sunday
supplements
of
the
New
York
papers
played
up
the
case
with
fascinating
sketches
which
showed
the
head
of
Benjamin
Button
attached
to
a
fish
,
to
a
snake
,
and
,
finally
,
to
a
body
of
solid
brass
.
He
became
known
,
journalistically
,
as
the
Mystery
Man
of
Maryland
.
But
the
true
story
,
as
is
usually
the
case
,
had
a
very
small
circulation
.
However
,
every
one
agreed
with
General
Moncrief
that
it
was
"
criminal
"
for
a
lovely
girl
who
could
have
married
any
beau
in
Baltimore
to
throw
herself
into
the
arms
of
a
man
who
was
assuredly
fifty
.
In
vain
Mr.
Roger
Button
published
Us
son
's
birth
certificate
in
large
type
in
the
Baltimore
Blaze
.
No
one
believed
it
.
You
had
only
to
look
at
Benjamin
and
see
.
On
the
part
of
the
two
people
most
concerned
there
was
no
wavering
.
So
many
of
the
stories
about
her
fiancé
were
false
that
Hildegarde
refused
stubbornly
to
believe
even
the
true
one
.
In
vain
General
Moncrief
pointed
out
to
her
the
high
mortality
among
men
of
fifty
--
or
,
at
least
,
among
men
who
looked
fifty
;
in
vain
he
told
her
of
the
instability
of
the
wholesale
hardware
business
.
Hildegarde
had
chosen
to
marry
for
mellowness
,
and
marry
she
did
...
.
