His Other Wife: A Novel — page 115: what you’re looking at

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GORDON WARREN'S PUPIL. 107 he lifted a straight, challenging look to Leda, who sat by listening, but taking no part in the talk. ‘*Ts that what society demands of women, Mrs. Croft?” inquired Faith, timidly raising her glance to the proud, reserved face of her guardian’s wife. ‘It is what society renders mecessary for women, Miss Hilary.” Leda’s tone was biting and cold, but there was a flash of strong feeling in her eyes as she returned Warren’s glance. ‘*Then I’d much rather not go into society if one must learn to be untrue. But I cannot see why falseness is ever necessary. ” ‘‘Nor do I think that you will ever find itso. To para- phrase an old proverb, ‘to the /rue all things are /rue.’ And you must not take my jest so seriously,” said Warren, who felt condemned for having provoked such remarks in the presence of Faith. It was as if he had flung something impure into the waters of a translucent fountain, and he despised himself for having used the girl’s guileless words as a means of giving Leda a thrust. As he uttered the last sentence he rose and crossed the room to where Faith sat before a table, touching up a little drawing in her sketch-book. He leaned over the back of her chair, and saw that she was finishing a sketch of a bit of scenery near the lake where she had passed the previous afternoon with him in Comicbooks: (E(o) 3