'' We are prone to suspect everybody of any
weakness we find in ourselves--and perhaps we are not
so far wrong as are those who accept without question
the noisy protestations of a world of self-deceivers.
Thenceforth she and Stanley got on better than ever
--apparently. But though she ignored it, she knew
the truth--knew her new and deep content was due to
her not having challenged his assertion that she loved
him. He, believing her honest and high minded,
assumed that the failure to challenge was a good
woman's way of admitting. But with the day of reckoning--
not only with him but also with her own self-
respect--put off until that vague and remote time when
she should be a successful prima donna, she gave herself
up to enjoyment. That was a summer of rarely fine
weather, particularly fine along the Jersey coast. They
--always in gay parties--motored up and down the
coast and inland. Several of the ``musical'' men--
notably Richardson of Elberon--had plenty of money;
Stanley, stopping with his cousins, the Frasers, on the
Rumson Road, brought several of his friends, all rich
and more or less free.
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