The fair boy in the audience who had waved was yet another suitor. “I do not wish to use this. ‘You’ve cause to be grateful to Gerald, then. “My dear Vee!” Her voice became very low. She was never able to trace the changes her attitude had undergone, from the time when she believed herself to be the pampered Queen of Fortune, the crown of a good man’s love (and secretly, but nobly, worshipping some one else), to the time when she realized she was in fact just a mannequin for her lover’s imagination, and that he cared no more for the realities of her being, for the things she felt and desired, for the passions and dreams that might move her, than a child cares for the sawdust in its doll. She had never dreamed of such decadence, never imagined that young people could be so happy and healthy. “You did good!” She closed her eyes and rested in the moment, imagining a normal life where she would go to college, have babies with John, watch her children have children, live, and die as she had always wanted to. “In the end,” it seemed to be thinking, “they embalmed me with the utmost respect—sound spices chosen to endure—the best! I took my world as I found it. She touched it, and her gaze lifted. What he wanted desperately was to be alone. And you have to thank her presence, hot-headed boy, that I do not chastise your insolence as it deserves. On the contrary, it was impossible to look at him without perceiving that his resolution was unshaken.
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