Mrs. Winnie answered nothing, but looked at him with wondering
admiration in her eyes. "You arc different from the men about you,"
she remarked, after a while-and her tone gave Montague to understand
that there was one person who meant to stand by him.
But Mrs. Winnie Duval was not all Society. Montague was amused to
notice with what suddenness the stream of invitations slacked up; it
was necessary for Alice to give her calling list many revisions.
Freddie Vandam had promised to invite them to his place on Long
Island, and of course that invitation would never come; likewise
they would never again see the palace of the Lester Todds, upon the
Jersey mountain-top.
Oliver put in the next few days in calling upon people to explain
his embarrassing situation. He washed his hands of his brother's
affairs, he said; and his friends might do the same, if they saw
fit. With the Robbie Waitings he had a stormy half hour, about which
he thought it best to say little to the rest of the family. Robbie
did not break with him utterly, because of their Wall Street
Alliance; but Mrs.
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