Price She
章节目录
共 30 题- THE PRICE SHE PAID
- David Graham Phillips
- Said Mildred to her brother: "How much--JUST how much is there?"
- A LONG AND PAINFUL SILENCE. THEN, THE WIDOW ABRUPTLY:
- II
- DEAR SIR:
- A pause, then Mildred said quite evenly, "Yes."
- III
- IV
- DEAR MILDRED:
- STANLEY.
- VI
- She answered: "In--about two years, I think."
- The look of terror and shrinking returned. "Where? To see him?"
- After a long silence, she said: "What does this make out of me?"
- VII
- Mildred was astounded. "He must know something about music."
- She looked at him pleadingly. "I don't have to answer right away?"
- Mildred nodded. "But this is worse than I expected--much worse."
- He took it. "You owe me an explanation."
- VIII
- Said Mildred: "Would you seriously advise me to try that?"
- In a tone that was admission, Mildred said: "I don't know."
- Mildred smiled. "Rather--unconventional?"
- IX
- To Mildred with a smile, "Will you try?"
- A brief hesitation, then: "Certainly."
- He smiled in his strange way. "I?--when I loved you? Hardly."
- He smiled, put out his hand in farewell. "Crossley told me. Good-by."
- End of Project Gutenberg's The Price She Paid, by David Graham Phillips