And on the following morning when she read in the stock reports that
Princeton Platinum had fallen to one and a half, she remembered her
stroke of yesterday with a conscience which if not wholly clear was
thoroughly satisfied.
XXXV
HEARTSICK WITH THOUGHT.
Two Gentlemen of Verona; i.--1.
Fenton's forenoon at his studio was broken by a visit from Ninitta. His
mind full of his trip to New York, and of speculations concerning his
interview with Mrs. Glendower, he had let the whole question of the
_Fatima_ and his entanglement with its model slip from his mind, and
when he opened the door to find Mrs. Herman standing there, the shock
of his surprise was a most painful one. Ninitta's eyes were swollen
with weeping, and the sleepless night had made her plain face haggard
and ugly. With a quick, irritated gesture, the artist put his hand upon
her arm and drew her impatiently into the studio. Closing the door, he
stood confronting her a moment, studying her expression, as if to
discover the cause of her disturbance.
"Well," at length he said, harshly, "have you betrayed me?"
Ninitta answered his look with one of helpless and confused despair.
The anguish of the long hours during which she had been making up her
mind what to do in the emergency that had arisen, had stupefied her so
that she could not think clearly.
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