She was not competent to decide for herself. Every problem that had ever faced her had been decided by others for her. Who but me could decide for her now? I longed to plead with her, to show her how I was suffering; but I dared not.
"She would misunderstand," said I to myself. "She would think you were weakening."
Full fifteen minutes of that frightful silence before she said: "I will go where you wish.
" And she said it in a tone which makes me wince as I recall it now.
I called my partner's address up through the tube. Again that frightful silence, then she was trying to choke back the sobs.
A few words I caught: "They have broken my will-they have broken my will."
Ball lived in a big, graystone house that stood apart and commanded a noble view of the Hudson and the Palisades. It was, in the main, a reproduction of a French chateau, and such changes as the architect had made in his model were not positively disfiguring, though amusing.
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