We will go and talk with Nino between
us. Then we shall say nothing of which we can be ashamed or regret."
There came to Herman a vision of his boy clasped in Helen's arms which
made him feel as if suffocating with the excess of his emotion. He rose
blindly, only half conscious of what he was doing; and without giving
time for objections Helen hastened to dress herself for the street, and
in a few moments they were walking together toward the sculptor's
house.
To Herman's surprise, his wife was absent when he reached home. The
maid did not know where she had gone. She often went out in the morning
without saying where she was going, and of course the servant did not
ask.
"That is odd," Herman said; "but she has probably gone shopping or
something of the sort. It is too bad, she had so set her heart on
showing you the _bambino_, as she calls him, herself."
But it proved that Nino also was out, having been taken for a walk; and
so Helen, who returned home at once, saw neither of them.
VII
THIS DEED UNSHAPES ME.
Measure for Measure; iv.--4.
Ninitta had not gone shopping. She was posing for Arthur Fenton, at his
studio. Even the presence of her boy could not wholly make up to the
Italian for the loss of all the old interest and excitement of her life
as a model.
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