"
"The pianist?"
"Yes. She had been fighting down this thought for
days: that Hoddy did not care, that he did not love her, that he had mistaken a
vagary of the mind for a substance, and now regretted what he had done—
married a girl who was not his equal in anything. “Miss Pellissier is nothing to me
except a young lady for whom I have the most profound and respectful
admiration. . You might get faint, but you can fight it. She had a political cartoon from 1785
that showed a tall man in a cape, a caricature of a French
politico that looked suspiciously like him. Why should she trouble herself over that young fool, who was
nothing to her; who, when he eventually sobered up, would not be able to
recognize her, or if he did, as something phantasmagorical?
Perhaps he should not apply the term "fool"; "unfortunate" might be the more
accurate application. Businesswomen
in pointy-toed shoes swooned coyly in his direction,
tipping their noses over their glossy magazines to admire
273
him.
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