Adultery -- Fiction; Cuba -- Fiction; Runaway husbands -- Fiction
Yet everywhere, now, women had concentrated in a denial of that: the men
he knew hadn't a monopoly of restlessness. Even Fanny, in the parading
of all her rings, had not been oblivious of it. But it wasn't so much
that women denied their fundamental urgency as it was that they wanted
it exercised under other, more rapturous, conditions. Inexplicably, and
a great many at once, women had grown aware of the appalling difference
between what they might demand and what they had been receiving. In
consequence of this the world of masculine complacency was being dealt
some rude blows. But Lee Randon couldn't hope to go into this; the
problem was sufficiently complicated from his side of the fence. There
were, immediately, the practical developments of his undertaking to be
met. He served nothing by putting them off. He must write, but through
his lawyers, to William Grove and find out what action he proposed
to take, what arrangements for divorce could be facilitated. A
letter--there could be no saving impersonality here--to Fanny was more
difficult.
From Havana, his approval of Fanny was very complete; he understood
her, made allowances, now better than at any time during their marriage;
given what, together, they were, her conduct had been admirable. A
remarkably attractive and faithful woman, he told himself; it was a pity
that, in her estimation, her good qualities had come to so little. The
thing for him to do was to see his brother, and move part of the burden
of his decisions over to Daniel's heavy frame.
The sugar estate of which he was Administrador was in the Province of
Camagüey, at Cobra; an overnight trip from Havana, Lee had learned. It
was Sunday evening now, and they would have to give up their room at the
Inglaterra Tuesday. Obviously there wasn't time to write Daniel and
have a reply by then. The other desirable hotels were as full as the
Inglaterra. He must wire, but the composition of his telegram presented
an unexpected difficulty:
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