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of Arizona or Texas or somewhere — he'd been working in Paris. He painted Persis, and they went around together. I never saw people so much in love; it was like a fire, burning them both up. Persis came back, and Joe followed; we all knew it. It went on for about a year, and it was an awful year for everyone. And about two years ago they went to Cliff and told him, and they came up here." "I'm sorry!" Tamara exclaimed impulsively under her breath. The man leaned over a little to hear her. "You're sorry? Why?" "Oh, I don't know. But I am. I mean — I like them both, and I'll go on liking them both, they've been lovely to me. But I'm sort of sorry!" "That's just your inhibitions talking, Tarn," Mayne said, in a serious voice. "You don't really think any the the less of them. You just said you didn't know why you were sorry." "I didn't mean that," she said quickly in justification. "I know perfectly well why I'm sorry. I like Persis, and I'm sorry she's that sort of woman." Mayne was silent a moment. "What sort of woman?" he asked temperately, but there was no sympathy in his tone. "The sort that — well, that sort." "You mean that Persis, who is one of the most exquisite women who ever lived, who wouldn't hurt a fly, who adores her kid and has even made Cliff her lifelong friend, you mean that in some way women who haven't got half her courage are more admirable than she is?" TAMARA spoke steadily to control • tears. It shook her to the soul to differ with him. "No, not that. But there isn't any use pretending that there isn't a — a code, Mayne, and that decent people don't follow it." "My God!" the man said under his breath, as Tamara paused to gather her forces. "I guess they caught you pretty young, my darling little girl," he said kindly. "Don't talk like that, Mayne. You know there are things decent people don't do. You wouldn't say that if it was a question of a man forging — or cheating at cards — " "And Persis loving Joe, and going to him because she loved him, and turning both their lives into heaven — a decent woman couldn't have done that? That was like cheating or forging?" "Mayne," Tamara stammered, angrily combating a tendency towards tears, "don't talk as if I were such a prig! It is a shock to find out that Persis and Joe — Persis and Joe — " she stopped, strangled. "Persis and Joe love each other with the most beautiful, the cleanest and finest passion I've ever seen," Mayne argued. "She's the kind of woman who can't see a baby crying without wanting to comfort it, that can't see an old beggar on the road but that she must do something about him. Listen, sweetheart — I can come up, huh?" Mayne interrupted himself to ask at the door of the apartment. "Lance has got a cold, and he's in bed." "I'll come into the kitchen then, and maybe you'll make me some coffee. 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