see that he had come only because be had to go through the form of to her certain measures to be taken at was beginning to feel the physical reaction of her struggle with the mare the fatigue which at first had her nerves now woke them to sensibility and an appealing word from her husband would have drawn her to his arms but his answer seemed to drive all the blood back to her heart i don t see why you still go through the form of consulting me about when you have always done just as you pleased there without ard to me or made no answer silenced by the of hearing the same old grievance on her lips and she too seemed struck after she had spoken by the of such the fruit of the m it doesn t of i ll do wish she went on but i could have seat my signature if that is all you came for thanks said coldly i shall remember that the next time they stood silent for a moment he with his fixed on her she with averted head twisting her riding whip t her fingers then she said suddenly we shall be late for dinner and passing into her dressing room she the door roused himself as she disappeared he exclaimed moving toward her but as he approached the door he heard her maid s voice within and turning away he went to his own room came down late to dinner with vivid and an air of ease and the manner of her en trance combined with her husband s arrival produced in their observant guests the sense of latent mr though evidently unaware of his son in law s return till they greeted each other in the drawing room was too good a card player to betray surprise and mrs herself in the delicate art of taking everything for granted but these very sharpened tlie perception of the other guests whom long practice had rendered expert in such signs � the fruit of the tree of all this was aware and conscious also that by every one but herself the suspected between the was regarded as turning merely on the question of money to the greater number of persons present there was in fact no other conceivable source of discord since every known could be adjusted by means of the universal it was this of view which bound together in the of a new the members of s world r which supplied them with their pass words and social and defended them securely against the attack of ideas the genius of history directing the of its sometimes lets the drama through a series of and then suddenly the pace into one scene the stuff of a dozen the chance meeting of and seemingly of no significance to either contained the of of which both had b un to be aware before the evening was over their short talk � the first really intimate exchange of words between them � had the effect of creating a sense of that grew in the atmosphere of the dinner table was always reluctant to take part in s � the of the tree week end dinners but as she descended the stairs thai evening she did not regret having to be present she frankly wanted to see his tone his view of life her own restored her faith in the reality and importance of au that ignored and excluded her extreme to surrounding of thought and told her as she at him between the flowers and candles of the long dinner table that he too was aware of the same effect and it flashed across her that they were unconsciously drawn together by the fact that they were the only two strangers in the room every one else had the same spoke the same language drew on the same stock of allusions used the same and measures in persons and actions between s indolent of mind and the processes of the rosy there was a difference of degree but not of kind if viewed the spectacle more it was not because he had the sense of its importance but because years of experience had him with its details and this familiarity with the world he lived in liad bred a profound contempt for any other in no way could tlie x of contact between and e been more vividly brought out than by from the currents of the fruit of the tree opinion about them seated in endurance at the foot of the table between mrs with her carefully distributed and with her reckless of pebbles seemed to as much of a stranger as herself among the people to whom his marriage had introduced him so strongly did she feel the sense of their common that it was no surprise to her when the men reappeared in the drawing room after dinner to have her host thread his way between the bridge tables straight to the comer where e sat s methods in the drawing room were as direct as in the cotton mill he always went up at once to the person he sought without preliminary waste of and on this occasion without knowing wliat had passed between himself and suspected from the appearance of both that their talk had resulted in increasing s desire to be with one to whom he could speak freely and naturally on the subject nearest his heart she l at once to question him about and the in his face showed tliat liis work was still a refuge from all that made life and unintelligible convictions had been or in him his faith in the im of his ta k remained and the firmness with which lie held to it filled with a sense of his strength s the fruit of the tree � than a haunting dream but her promise to see the 