But I shall make one more effort.
CHAPTER V: AN EXPERIMENT
"And thus I'll curb her mad and headstrong humor.
He that knows better how to tame a shrew,
Now let him speak; 'tis charity to show."
--"Taming of the Shrew."
"What would have happened if she had behaved differently, Stuart?" I
asked, after I had read the pages he had so kindly placed at my
disposal.
"Oh, nothing in particular to which she could reasonably object,"
returned Harley. "The incidents of a truly realistic novel are
rarely objectionable, except to people of a captious nature. I
intended to have Bonetti dance attendance upon Miss Andrews for the
balance of the season, that's all, hoping thereby to present a good
picture of life at Newport in July and part of August. About the
middle of August I was going to transport the whole cast to Bar
Harbor, for variety's sake. That would have been another opportunity
to get a good deal of the American summer atmosphere into the book.
I wish I could afford the kind of summer I contemplated giving her.
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