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over the firm’s affairs. Then also, those who had hoped their children would inherit his personal fortune strongly resented his marriage to anybody at all; he hadn’t anticipated that, even remotely. And finally, all except Jill (and in one sense even including Jill) were manifestly and desperately jealous of his choice. Only Chet seemed to have any genuine tolerance of the idea— a tolerance not quite reaching the point of enthusiasm. He had so long joked about the need for Charles to “hurry ...up” that now Charles WAS hurrying up he could not withhold somewhat rueful good wishes.The party at Stourton to celebrate the engagement was not a successful affair.Then, in June, quite suddenly, Chet died after a heart attack, and plans for the marriage in July were postponed till autumn; it would have been impossible, in any event, to leave England during all the legal complications that ensued.The marriage was finally fixed for October. Charles took Kitty to dine at Kettner’s again one night in late September, and for some reason the same mood came upon them as during the journey back from Switzerland five months before. She suggested that, on his side, it was due to news in the evening paper—a big stock-market crash in New York, with inevitable repercussions in London.He was too honest with her to accept that as a reason. “I’m not a speculator. Rainier’s dropped five shillings today, I notice, but it doesn’t affect me or the firm—they can go down ten times as much before it’ll begin to worry me. Matter of fact, everything’s been pushed too high lately, especially in America. I could make a lot of money now if I backed my opinion.”“What opinion?”“That the fall will go much further.”“How would you make money by backing your opinion?”“Selling short, as they call it. That means—““I know—I learnt all about it at Kirby when we used to gamble in Rainier shares. Remember?”“You must have lost everything.”“Nearly everything. About thirty-two pounds all together.” She laughed. “Well, why DON’T you sell short?”“I will, if it amuses you. But I’d have no other reason.”“Yes, do it—to amuse me. Please, Charles.”“Then there’s two things I have to do at the office tomorrow morning.” He took out his notebook and made a pretence of writing something down. “Sell short to amuse Kitty. Also get Miss Hanslett to send out the wedding invitations.”“Who’s Miss Hanslett?”“My new secretary. You saw her last time you called.”“Oh, that quiet girl?”“I suppose she’s quiet. I certainly wouldn’t want her to be noisy.”“Darling, how soon can we leave—afterwards?”“You mean for our world tour? Maybe next month. It’ll be too late for the Danube, though, this year. We’d better do the Amazon first. Or the Nile.”“No, not the Nile—Jill’s there.”“What’s she doing?”“Looking at the tombs, I suppose, and having a good time.”But the laugh they rallied themselves into failed to shift the mood that made him, as soon as dinner was over, confess that he felt tired and would prefer an early night in bed. He dropped her at Jill’s new house in St.
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over the firm’s affairs. Then also, those who had hoped their children would inherit his personal fortune strongly resented his marriage to anybody at all; he hadn’t anticipated that, even remotely. And finally, all except Jill (and in one sense even including Jill) were manifestly and desperately jealous of his choice. Only Chet seemed to have any genuine tolerance of the idea— a tolerance not quite reaching the point of enthusiasm. He had so long joked about the need for Charles to “hurry ...up” that now Charles WAS hurrying up he could not withhold somewhat rueful good wishes.The party at Stourton to celebrate the engagement was not a successful affair.Then, in June, quite suddenly, Chet died after a heart attack, and plans for the marriage in July were postponed till autumn; it would have been impossible, in any event, to leave England during all the legal complications that ensued.The marriage was finally fixed for October. Charles took Kitty to dine at Kettner’s again one night in late September, and for some reason the same mood came upon them as during the journey back from Switzerland five months before. She suggested that, on his side, it was due to news in the evening paper—a big stock-market crash in New York, with inevitable repercussions in London.He was too honest with her to accept that as a reason. “I’m not a speculator. Rainier’s dropped five shillings today, I notice, but it doesn’t affect me or the firm—they can go down ten times as much before it’ll begin to worry me. Matter of fact, everything’s been pushed too high lately, especially in America. I could make a lot of money now if I backed my opinion.”“What opinion?”“That the fall will go much further.”“How would you make money by backing your opinion?”“Selling short, as they call it. That means—““I know—I learnt all about it at Kirby when we used to gamble in Rainier shares. Remember?”“You must have lost everything.”“Nearly everything. About thirty-two pounds all together.” She laughed. “Well, why DON’T you sell short?”“I will, if it amuses you. But I’d have no other reason.”“Yes, do it—to amuse me. Please, Charles.”“Then there’s two things I have to do at the office tomorrow morning.” He took out his notebook and made a pretence of writing something down. “Sell short to amuse Kitty. Also get Miss Hanslett to send out the wedding invitations.”“Who’s Miss Hanslett?”“My new secretary. You saw her last time you called.”“Oh, that quiet girl?”“I suppose she’s quiet. I certainly wouldn’t want her to be noisy.”“Darling, how soon can we leave—afterwards?”“You mean for our world tour? Maybe next month. It’ll be too late for the Danube, though, this year. We’d better do the Amazon first. Or the Nile.”“No, not the Nile—Jill’s there.”“What’s she doing?”“Looking at the tombs, I suppose, and having a good time.”But the laugh they rallied themselves into failed to shift the mood that made him, as soon as dinner was over, confess that he felt tired and would prefer an early night in bed. He dropped her at Jill’s new house in St.
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