I dare say it would have been more seemly to decline this proposal.
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I think perhaps I should have made a show of the indignation I really felt, and I am sure that Colonel MacAndrew at least would have thought well of me if I had been able to report my stout refusal to sit at the same table with a man of such character.
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But the fear of not being able to carry it through effectively has always made me shy of assuming the moral attitude; and in this case the certainty that my sentiments would be lost on Strickland made it peculiarly embarrassing to utter them.
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I paid for what we had drunk, and we made our way to a cheap restaurant, crowded and gay, where we dined with pleasure.
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I had the appetite of youth and he of a hardened conscience.
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Then we went to a tavern to have coffee and liqueurs.
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Only the poet or the saint can water an asphalt pavement in the confident anticipation that lilies will reward his labour.
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I had said all I had to say on the subject that had brought me to Paris, and though I felt it in a manner treacherous to Mrs. Strickland not to pursue it, I could not struggle against his indifference.
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I solaced myself by thinking that it would be useful for me to find out what I could about Strickland's state of mind.
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He did not seem to care much about the Paris he was now seeing for the first time (I did not count the visit with his wife), and he accepted sights which must have been strange to him without any sense of astonishment.
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It also interested me much more.
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It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.
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But though he said nothing of any consequence, there was something in his personality which prevented him from being dull.
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But this was not an easy thing to do, for Strickland was not a fluent talker.
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I have been to Paris a hundred times, and it never fails to give me a thrill of excitement; I can never walk its streets without feeling myself on the verge of adventure.
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He seemed to express himself with difficulty, as though words were not the medium with which his mind worked; and you had to guess the intentions of his soul by hackneyed phrases, slang, and vague, unfinished gestures.
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Perhaps it was sincerity.
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There were a number of harlots in the tavern: some were sitting with men, others by themselves; and presently I noticed that one of these was looking at us.
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In a little while she went out, but in a minute returned and, passing our table, very politely asked us to buy her something to drink.
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She made me translate what she could only express in her own tongue, and eagerly asked for the meaning of his replies.
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She tried to talk to him, partly by signs, partly in pidgin French, which, for some reason, she thought would be more comprehensible to him, and she had half a dozen phrases of English.
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I do not think he saw her.
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She sat down and I began to chat with her; but, it was plain that her interest was in Strickland.
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I explained that he knew no more than two words of French.
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Strickland remained placid. Looking back, I think now that he was blind to everything but to some disturbing vision in his soul.
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One rather absurd incident took place.
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When she caught Strickland's eye she smiled.
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He was quite good-tempered, a little amused, but his indifference was obvious.
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"I think you've made a conquest," I laughed.
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She had laughing eyes and a most charming mouth.
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She walked out of the inn. I was slightly vexed.
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She rose to her feet.
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His manner made his answer quite plain, and the girl threw back her head with a sudden gesture.
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She made no secret of her desires, and I was bidden to translate.
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"I'm not flattered."
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"There wasn't any need to insult her that I can see," I said. "After all, it was rather a compliment she was paying you."
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"I'm not taking any," he replied.
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She was young.
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I wondered what she found so attractive in Strickland.
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Perhaps she reddened under her paint.
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When I translated this, Strickland shrugged his shoulders impatiently.
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"Tell her to go to hell," he said.
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"She wants you to go home with her."
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"Monsieur n'est pas poli," she said.
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"But I like him," she said. "Tell him it's for love."
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I put his answer as pleasantly as I could. It seemed to me a little ungracious to decline an invitation of that sort, and I ascribed his refusal to lack of money.
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In his place I should have been more embarrassed and less calm.
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"That sort of thing makes me sick," he said roughly.
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There was a real distaste in his face, and yet it was the face of a coarse and sensual man.
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I suppose the girl had been attracted by a certain brutality in it.
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"I could have got all the women I wanted in London. I didn't come here for that."
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I looked at him curiously.
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