Gentleman Called
“NORRIS, NOT WANTING the doorman to know any more of her business, took the service elevator down and went out through the basement. Walking the few blocks to East Sixty-first Street, she had time to consider some of the untruths Mr. Adkins had told her. In his note he had mentioned his office. A lie that: no one in the building had any knowledge of his ever having had an office there.
He must be the heir to the fortune, of course: Mr. James said so. What she really wondered was whether it might... not be her own particular feeling about money, specifically about the money she had worked for and saved, which colored her impression. The truth was she had now the distinct feeling that his entire performance had been aimed at extorting her widow’s savings. And all by the promise of marriage! Oh, the conceit of the man. It was over that he would stumble some day, unless he learned there were women in the world who could resist him.
She arrived at the 61st Street address. A tenement house! The man must be a complete fraud.MoreLess
He must be the heir to the fortune, of course: Mr. James said so. What she really wondered was whether it might... not be her own particular feeling about money, specifically about the money she had worked for and saved, which colored her impression. The truth was she had now the distinct feeling that his entire performance had been aimed at extorting her widow’s savings. And all by the promise of marriage! Oh, the conceit of the man. It was over that he would stumble some day, unless he learned there were women in the world who could resist him.
She arrived at the 61st Street address. A tenement house! The man must be a complete fraud.MoreLess
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