...Not that at times he doesn't
attract me that way. But because one likes champagne one does not
wish it by the cask. A glass now and then, or a bottle--perhaps--"
Aloud: "What is it, Selina?"
"A note for you, ma'am, from HIM. It's marked important and
immediate. You told me not to disturb you with those marked
important, nor with those marked immediate. But you didn't say
what to do about those marked both."
"The same," said Margaret, stretching herself out at full length,
and snuggling her head into the softness of her perfumed hair.
"But now that you've brought it thus far, let me have it."
Selina laid it on the silk and swansdown quilt and departed.
Margaret forgot that it was there in thinking about a new dress
she was planning, an adaptation of a French model. As she turned
herself it fell to the floor. She reached down, picked it up,
opened it, read:
"It's no use. Fate's against us. I find the President is making my
marriage the excuse for not appointing me. How lucky we did not
announce the engagement. This is a final good-by. I shall keep out
of your way. It's useless for you to protest. I am doing what is
best for us both. Thank me, and forget me.
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