For, naturally, while Fanny
was with Lucy, Fanny thought of George, and what time Lucy had
George's aunt before her eyes she could not well avoid the thought of
him. Consequently, both looked absent-minded as they talked, and each
often gave a wrong answer which the other consistently failed to
notice.
At other times Lucy's thoughts of George were anything but continuous,
and weeks went by when he was not consciously in her mind at all. Her
life was a busy one: she had the big house "to keep up"; she had a
garden to keep up, too, a large and beautiful garden; she represented
her father as a director for half a dozen public charity
organizations, and did private charity work of her own, being a proxy
mother of several large families; and she had "danced down," as she
said, groups from eight or nine classes of new graduates returned from
the universities, without marrying any of them, but she still danced--
and still did not marry.
Her father, observing this circumstance happily, yet with some
hypocritical concern, spoke of it to her one day as they stood in her
garden.
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