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OIL AND WATER
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complete when the Goddess, on the verge of despair of finding the Supreme Moment, her consort, espied the Herald of Promise leading the shadow of a Man by the hand ! The Goddess sprang toward him with open arms; the music burst forth exultingly ; the lights sank to a blood-red tinge; the curtain slowly descended.
The audience rose to go, many shocked with the involuntary emotions
rather, what would his mother, his brother, his family and society say? And the newspapers said columns of what they were supposed to have said — and didn't say.
James Winthrop brought his bride home, and the door was closed in the faces of a half-dozen impudent reporters. Thereupon, Mr. and Mrs. James Winthrop took up their abode under the parental roof. Perhaps
OLD ASSOCIATIONS REVIVED
that had crept thru their sluggish veins. James Winthrop went straight to the manager's office.
"Good-evening, Mr. Winthrop/' saluted the manager, surprised at the visit. "What can I do for you?"
1 ' I should like to meet Mademoiselle Genova — the danseuse."
Nobody seemed to know, or to care even, about the mere facts of James Winthrop 's strange courtship and sudden marriage to Mile. Genova, premiere danseuse. The point was,
Mrs. Winthrop, the elder, appeared slightly less in society ; perhaps there were a few harder lines in her face, and the remainder of her hair had turned gray; perhaps she no longer greeted her formerly favorite son with more or less formal embraces. At least, the cold exterior of the Winthrops betrayed no unruffled interior — excepting James. For the first few months of his married life James had seemed unmistakably happy. For that period he had shaken all the traditions of Winthrop deportment by