he had to look pleased under that touch the more demanding in its softness he was impatient he wanted to flee out to a hard sure man world through hear delicate and caressing fingers she may have caught something of his she left him � he was for the moment relieved � she dragged a to his feet and sat up at him but as in many mm the of a dog the of a frightened child rouse not pity but a surprised and cruelty so her humility only � annoyed and he her now as middle aged as to be old even while be detested his own thou ts they rode him she was old he he noted how the soft flesh was into folds beneath her chin her eyes at the base of her wrists a patch of her had a minute ess like the from a rubber old she was younger in years than yet it was sickening to have her yearning up at him with rolling great eyes � as if he shuddered his own aunt were making love to him he fretted inwardly i m with this around i m going to cut her out she s a dam decent nice woman and i don t want to hurt her but hurt a lot less to cut her right out like a good clean operation he was on his feet he was speaking by every of self esteem he had to prove to her and to himself that it was her fault i maybe i m kind of out of sorts to night but honest honey when i stayed away for a while to catch up on work and everything and figure out where i was at you ought to have been and waited till i came back can t you see dear when you made me come i� being about an average bull headed � my tendency was to resist listen dear i m going now � not for a while precious no right now and then sometime well see about the future what do you mean dear about the future have i done something i t to oh i m so dreadfully sorry he resolutely put his hands behind him not a thing god bless you not a thing you re as good as they make em but it s just � good lord do you realize i ve got things to do in the world i ve got a business to attend to and you might not believe it but i ve got a wife and that i m awful fond of then only during the murder he was committing was he able to feel nobly virtuous i want us to be but i can t go on this feeling i got to come up here so often � oh darling darling and i ve always told you so carefully that you were absolutely free i just wanted you to come around when you were tired and wanted to talk to me or when you could enjoy our parties � she was so reasonable she was so gently right it took him an hour to make his escape with nothing settled and everything horribly settled in a barren freedom of icy northern wind he signed thank god that s over i poor poor darling decent i but it is over absolute i i m f chapter his wife was when he came in did you have a good time she did not i had a rotten time i anything else i got to explain george how can you speak like � oh i don t know what s come over good lord there s nothing come over why do you look for trouble all the time he was warning himself careful stop being so disagreeable course she feels it being left alone here all evening but he forgot his warning as she went on why do you go out and see all sorts of strange people i suppose say you ve been to another committee meeting this evening i i ve been calling on a woman we sat by the fire and each other and had a whale of a good time if you want to well � from the way you say it i suppose it s my you went there i i probably sent you well upon my word � you hate strange le as you call em if you had your way i d be as much of an old stick in the mud as you never want to have anybody with any to em at the house you want a bunch of old that sit around and gas about the weather you re doing your level best to make me old well let me tell you i m not going to have � she bent to his and in answer she mourned oh dearest i don t think that s true i don t mean to make you old i know perhaps you re partly right s i am slow about getting acquainted with new people but when you think of all the dear good times we have and the supper parties and the a� d all � with true masculine he not only convinced himself that she had injured him but by the of his voice and the of his attack he convinced her also and presently he had her for his having spent the evening with he went up to bed well pleased not only the master but the of the household for a distasteful moment after he had lain down he wondered if he had been altogether just t to be ashamed her maybe there is her side to things maybe she hasn t had such a time but i don t good for her to get up a little and i m going to keep free of her and and the at the and 