I know I must
appear to you very wilful, but there are certain things one can only
settle for oneself."
"I can give you the address of my solicitor, a very capable and
trustworthy man, who will carry out your instructions."
"Thank you, Monsignor; and be sure nothing will happen to me in
America. In six months I shall be back."
Evelyn went away to Mr. Enterwick, the solicitor Monsignor
recommended, and the following month she sailed for America.
IV
Her pictures and furniture were on view at Christie's in the early
spring, and all Owen's friends met each other in the rooms and on
the staircase.
The pictures were to be sold on Saturday, the furniture, china, and
enamels on the following Monday.
"The pictures don't matter so much, although her own portrait is
going to be sold. But the furniture! Dear God, look at that brute
trying the springs of the sofa where I have sat so often with her.
And there is the chair on which I used to sit listening to her when
she sang. And her piano--why, my God, she is selling her piano!--
What is to become of that woman? A singer who sells her piano!"
"My dear friend, I suppose she had to sell everything or nothing?"
"But she'll have to buy another piano, and she might have kept the
one I gave her.
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