'One
must have an education.' Do you remember her saying that' Oh, our
matrimonial objects are panning out beyond all expectation!"
What a delicious, never-to-be-forgotten month it was for those
two! There in the midst of life they were as much alone as upon a
tropic island. Blix had deliberately freed herself from a world
that had grown distasteful to her; Condy little by little had
dropped away from his place among the men and the women of his
acquaintance, and the two came and went together, living in a
little world of their own creation, happy in each other's society,
living only in the present, and asking nothing better than to be
left alone and to their own devices.
They saw each other every day. In the morning from nine till
twelve, and in the afternoon until three, Condy worked away upon
his novel, but not an evening passed that did not see him and Blix
in the dining-room of the little flat. Thursdays and Sunday
afternoons they visited the life-boat station, and at other times
prowled about the unfrequented corners of the city, now passing an
afternoon along the water front, watching the departure of a China
steamer or the loading of the great, steel wheat ships; now
climbing the ladder-like streets of Telegraph Hill, or revisiting
the Plaza, Chinatown, and the restaurant; or taking long walks in
the Presidio Reservation, watching cavalry and artillery drills;
or sitting for hours on the rocks by the seashore, watching the
ceaseless roll and plunge of the surf, the wheeling sea-birds, and
the sleek-headed seals hunting the offshore fish, happy for a
half-hour when they surprised one with his prey in his teeth.
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