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As
this
was
an
inane
and
unanswerable
argument
Benjamin
made
no
reply
,
and
from
that
time
on
a
chasm
began
to
widen
between
them
.
He
wondered
what
possible
fascination
she
had
ever
exercised
over
him
.
To
add
to
the
breach
,
he
found
,
as
the
new
century
gathered
headway
,
that
his
thirst
for
gaiety
grew
stronger
.
Never
a
party
of
any
kind
in
the
city
of
Baltimore
but
he
was
there
,
dancing
with
the
prettiest
of
the
young
married
women
,
chatting
with
the
most
popular
of
the
debutantes
,
and
finding
their
company
charming
,
while
his
wife
,
a
dowager
of
evil
omen
,
sat
among
the
chaperons
,
now
in
haughty
disapproval
,
and
now
following
him
with
solemn
,
puzzled
,
and
reproachful
eyes
.
"
Look
!
"
people
would
remark
.
"
What
a
pity
!
A
young
fellow
that
age
tied
to
a
woman
of
forty-five
.
He
must
be
twenty
years
younger
than
his
wife
.
"
They
had
forgotten
--
as
people
inevitably
forget
--
that
back
in
1880
their
mammas
and
papas
had
also
remarked
about
this
same
ill-matched
pair
.
Benjamin
's
growing
unhappiness
at
home
was
compensated
for
by
his
many
new
interests
.
He
took
up
golf
and
made
a
great
success
of
it
.
He
went
in
for
dancing
:
in
1906
he
was
an
expert
at
"
The
Boston
,
"
and
in
1908
he
was
considered
proficient
at
the
"
Maxixe
,
"
while
in
1909
his
"
Castle
Walk
"
was
the
envy
of
every
young
man
in
town
.
His
social
activities
,
of
course
,
interfered
to
some
extent
with
his
business
,
but
then
he
had
worked
hard
at
wholesale
hardware
for
twenty-five
years
and
felt
that
he
could
soon
hand
it
on
to
his
son
,
Roscoe
,
who
had
recently
graduated
from
Harvard
.
He
and
his
son
were
,
in
fact
,
often
mistaken
for
each
other
.
This
pleased
Benjamin
--
he
soon
forgot
the
insidious
fear
which
had
come
over
him
on
his
return
from
the
Spanish-American
War
,
and
grew
to
take
a
naïve
pleasure
in
his
appearance
.
There
was
only
one
fly
in
the
delicious
ointment
--
he
hated
to
appear
in
public
with
his
wife
.
Hildegarde
was
almost
fifty
,
and
the
sight
of
her
made
him
feel
absurd
...
.
One
September
day
in
1910
--
a
few
years
after
Roger
Button
&
Co.
,
Wholesale
Hardware
,
had
been
handed
over
to
young
Roscoe
Button
--
a
man
,
apparently
about
twenty
years
old
,
entered
himself
as
a
freshman
at
Harvard
University
in
Cambridge
.
He
did
not
make
the
mistake
of
announcing
that
he
would
never
see
fifty
again
,
nor
did
he
mention
the
fact
that
his
son
had
been
graduated
from
the
same
institution
ten
years
before
.
He
was
admitted
,
and
almost
immediately
attained
a
prominent
position
in
the
class
,
partly
because
he
seemed
a
little
older
than
the
other
freshmen
,
whose
average
age
was
about
eighteen
.
But
his
success
was
largely
due
to
the
fact
that
in
the
football
game
with
Yale
he
played
so
brilliantly
,
with
so
much
dash
and
with
such
a
cold
,
remorseless
anger
that
he
scored
seven
touchdowns
and
fourteen
field
goals
for
Harvard
,
and
caused
one
entire
eleven
of
Yale
men
to
be
carried
singly
from
the
field
,
unconscious
.
He
was
the
most
celebrated
man
in
college
.
Strange
to
say
,
in
his
third
or
junior
year
he
was
scarcely
able
to
"
make
"
the
team
.
The
coaches
said
that
he
had
lost
weight
,
and
it
seemed
to
the
more
observant
among
them
that
he
was
not
quite
as
tall
as
before
.
He
made
no
touchdowns
--
indeed
,
he
was
retained
on
the
team
chiefly
in
hope
that
his
enormous
reputation
would
bring
terror
and
disorganisation
to
the
Yale
team
.
