All Mildred
learned was that Jennings did not give up paying pupils.
She had not confidence enough in this discovery to put
it to the test. She did not dare disobey him or shirk--
even when she was most disposed to do so. But gradually
she ceased from that intense application she had
at first brought to her work. She kept up the forms.
She learned her lessons. She did all that was asked.
She seemed to be toiling as in the beginning. In reality,
she became by the middle of spring a mere lesson-taker.
Her interest in clothes and in going about revived. She
saw in the newspapers that General Siddall had taken
a party of friends on a yachting trip around the world,
so she felt that she was no longer being searched for,
at least not vigorously. She became acquainted with
smart, rich West Side women, taking lessons at
Jennings's. She amused herself going about with them and
with the ``musical'' men they attracted--amateur and
semi-professional singers and players upon instruments.
She drew Mrs.
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