235 “No, I think she’s out sick with a throat infection. Then he slapped his hand on his desk and looked up with the air of a man struck by a brilliant idea. Her father—man of rock—had never needed her, whereas Hoddy, even if he did not love her, would always be needing her. ‘No, no, Jacques, you have done very right. She had never experienced anything so disagreeable in her life as the sense of being held helplessly off her feet. ‘Sapristi,’ he shouted angrily. In the distance a barrel-organ was grinding out a pot pourri of popular airs. “Look here, daddy,” she said, in a tone of great reasonableness, “I MUST go to that dance, you know. Following his guide, Sir Rowland found himself in a large and lofty apartment, the extent of which he could not entirely discern until lights were set upon the table. 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.
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