CHAPTER THE THIRD
THE MORNING OF THE CRISIS
Part 1
Two days after came the day of the Crisis, the day of the Fadden Dance. That night in Paris I saw on the bills
‘Fatal Motor Accidents. Then she stood up and looked around the room. 176
“No, it’s very good. Where her
husband saw only two youngsters in the mating mood, she felt that tragedy in
some phase lurked in this room—if only in the loneliness of these two, without
kith or kin apparently, thousands of miles from home. Above the housetops it was different. . "Yes, Auntie! And to date you have cost me precisely sixteen thousand dollars—
hard earned, every one of them. Taking the opposite course from that which he had hitherto pursued
when it has been necessary to attend him in his visits to the lower part of his
premises, he struck into a narrow passage on the right, which he tracked till he
came to a small door, like the approach to a vault. She smiled. Contrasted with the confused
movement and presences of a Fabian meeting, or the inexplicable enthusiasm
behind the suffrage demand, with the speeches that were partly egotistical
displays, partly artful manoeuvres, and partly incoherent cries for unsoundly
formulated ends, compared with the comings and goings of audiences and
supporters that were like the eddy-driven drift of paper in the street, this long,
quiet, methodical chamber shone like a star seen through clouds. Creeping stealthily up stairs, unmasking a dark lantern,
and glancing into each room as he passed, he was startled in one of them by the
appearance of Mrs.
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