"I'll look it up to-morrow. You know I--Mr. Cortlandt and I will
be in Panama, and I prefer to have you here. You see, we can do
more for you." A little later she broke into a low laugh.
"It seems strange to go driving with a conductor."
As they reclined against the padded seat of their coach, lulled by
the strains of music that came to them across the crowded Plaza
and argued their first difference, it struck the young man that
Edith Cortlandt was surprisingly warm and human for a woman of
ice. He fully felt her superiority, yet he almost forgot it in the
sense of cordial companionship she gave him.
XII
A NIGHT AT TABOGA
Despite his great contentment in Mrs. Cortlandt's society, Kirk
found himself waiting with growing impatience for his active
duties to begin. There was a restlessness in his mood, moreover,
which his desire to escape from a situation of rather humiliating
dependence could not wholly explain. Curiously enough, this
feeling was somehow connected with the thought of Edith herself.
Why this should be so, he did not trouble to inquire. They had
become the best of good friends, he told himself--a consummation
for which he had devoutly wished--yet, for some indefinable
reason, he was dissatisfied.
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