Blanche Refused to Look Out the Window

Dr. Askoff told Elene to have a sofa placed out on the lawn, and make her sister pass the afternoon in the open air. Blanche felt the glow these words gave her, even when Arthur had left her. But still he was gone. Aunt Sarah and one or two intimate friends envied Blanche's shady trees and cool river. Charlie missed his errings in the garden; altogether the advent of Lady Chester had thrown a gloom over the Hopkinson Circle. Mrs. Hopkinson sat with her broad back to the window, pertinaciously declining to look at all the wickedness on wheels that was rolling by her door.

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