Excerpt: ...opera precisely what you are going to sing?" "No," she said rebelliously. "It's not. There wasn't anything in the contract about that. I'll carry out the contract this summer. I'll keep my word and yours, since that is what you want me to do. But I won't sing 'Dolores' for anybody." He did not press her for the reason. After a little silence, she said, "Lucile thought I'd fallen in love with him. So did Rush, I guess, -and poor old Nat. Did you, John?" "I tried to, hard enough," he confessed. She stared. "Tried ...
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Excerpt: ...opera precisely what you are going to sing?" "No," she said rebelliously. "It's not. There wasn't anything in the contract about that. I'll carry out the contract this summer. I'll keep my word and yours, since that is what you want me to do. But I won't sing 'Dolores' for anybody." He did not press her for the reason. After a little silence, she said, "Lucile thought I'd fallen in love with him. So did Rush, I guess, -and poor old Nat. Did you, John?" "I tried to, hard enough," he confessed. She stared. "Tried to!" "That would have been the easier thing to fight," he said. "There's nothing inevitable about a man, -any man. I'd have stood a chance at least, of beating him, even though he had a twenty-year handicap or so. But the other thing, -well, that was like the first bar of the Fifth Symphony, you know; Fate knocking at the door. Clear terror that is until one can get the courage to open the door and invite Fate in." CHAPTER XV THE END OF IT About a week later-just at the beginning of June, this was-Paula did go back to Chicago, leaving her husband to go on gaining the benefit, for another ten days or so, of that wine-like mountain air. It was an unwelcome conviction that he really wanted her to go, rather than any crying need for her at Ravinia that decided her to leave him. The need would not be urgent for at least another fortnight since it had been decided between her and LaChaise that she should make her debut in Tosca, an opera she had sung uncounted times. Since their momentous conversation in which John had attempted to revise the fundamentals of their life together, they had not reverted to the main theme of it; had clarified, merely, one or two of its more immediate conclusions. Paula was to carry out in spirit as well as in letter the terms of her Ravinia contract exactly as if it were still to be regarded as the first step of her reopened career. What she should do about the second step in case it offered itself to her was a...
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