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Experiments in Convalescence

           Hewaspuzzledanddepressedby"APortraitoftheArtistasaYoungMan";intenselyinterestedby"JoanandPeter"and"TheUndyingFire,"andrathersurprisedbyhisdiscoverythroughacriticnamedMenckenofseveralexcellentAmericannovels:"VandoverandtheBrute,""TheDamnationofTheronWare,"and"JennieGerhardt."Mackenzie,Chesterton,Galsworthy,Bennett,hadsunkinhisappreciationfromsagacious,life-saturatedgeniusestomerelydivertingcontemporaries.Shaw’saloofclarityandbrilliantconsistencyandthegloriouslyintoxicatedeffortsofH.G.Wellstofitthekeyofromanticsymmetryintotheelusivelockoftruth,alonewonhisraptattention.

           HewantedtoseeMonsignorDarcy,towhomhehadwrittenwhenhelanded,buthehadnotheardfromhim;besidesheknewthatavisittoMonsignorwouldentailthestoryofRosalind,andthethoughtofrepeatingitturnedhimcoldwithhorror.

           InhissearchforcoolpeopleherememberedMrs.Lawrence,averyintelligent,verydignifiedlady,aconverttothechurch,andagreatdevoteeofMonsignor’s.

           Hecalledheronthe’phoneoneday.Yes,sherememberedhimperfectly;no,Monsignorwasn’tintown,wasinBostonshethought;he’dpromisedtocometodinnerwhenhereturned.Couldn’tAmorytakeluncheonwithher?

           "IthoughtI’dbettercatchup,Mrs.Lawrence,"hesaidratherambiguouslywhenhearrived.

           "Monsignorwasherejustlastweek,"saidMrs.Lawrenceregretfully."Hewasveryanxioustoseeyou,buthe’dleftyouraddressathome."

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