The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-11

had helped Thorpe work out the details, and the quick turn to her advantage gave her cheering sense of power.
 That profitable transaction mark ed the high point of her affair with Thorpe. For a while she was hap pier with him than she had ever been. She imagined them as part ners, doing great things together, a free man, free woman, swing ing far beyond commonplace hum drum humanity-but she expected the same humanity to admire and to envy-and it was at this time that she discovered she was going to have a child, and welcomed the discovery as the final sign of her emancipation from the rules that limit and plague lesser spirits.
 It did not have the same effect on Thorpe. He was frightened and lanes grandiloquent ideas fright ened him still more. Also they shocked him. Jane ought to have been terrified. She ought to have cried and she ought to have clung to him and implored him to help her. But she did none of these things. She laughed at his flust- cred reasonings and arguments. She assured him that the things he said didn't apply to her.
 His resistance strengthened her obstinacy. He couldn't make her see what an utter little fool she was and presently reached the stage of reproof and command. And then the last remnant of glamour was off Thorpe for Jane.
 
 On lengthy acid quarrel sue ceeded another. Jane pointed out to him that in brains and bus mess ability she was quite his equal if not his superior, and that she had been able to catch and stop various bad holes in the scheme by which they had profited at Kandel's expense. There was sufficient truth in this to flick Thorpe's self-esteem on thee raw. She said she never had thought it sporting of him to use her place in MT KandePs con- fidence to better himself, and that she was pretty sure he cared for her only to use her in this way.
 She also pointed out he wasn't supporting her, that he never had done so and that such presents as he had given her-that brooch and bracelet of sapphires and pearl, the crystal fruit dish for her din- ing table, the gold cigaret case and SO forth, she would gladly re- turn to him. She reminded him that she was 15 years younger than he, had never had a lover, that he was married, established and knew perfectly we'll what he was doing With these and similar thrusts she made him feel cheap and dirty and dishonest.
 Though he knew it was the truth, he knew also that it was qualified and explained by much other truth less advantageous to Jane's case for herself, but which he could not fling back at her. The necessa1y restraint did not endear her to him. Still his sense of responsibility would not let him leave her until he was driven away.
 And now she had driven him away. And the long hard wave of disgust for him and for herself though this she would never have admitted to him-which had car ried her through this last scene, had subsided and she was spent and done. She remembered the way she had thrown herself on her bed and sobbed about Howard Jackson and Amy, but to-day she was past tears. Then she had still had her beautiful, strong. un- touched body, but now that had failed her. She was ugly and awk- ward and weak and i'll. She was alone.
 There was no one in the world on whom she could rely for the grace and solace of companionship, and she wanted companionship. She needed someone to whom she could talk and ease the burden of secrecy. for that had become al- most tntolerable. For a moment