It was this trait in her which kept alive, long after it might havedied, the hope that her present state of mind was only a phase, andthat, when she had tired of the new game, she would become the old Ruthof the studio. But, when he was honest with himself, he was forced toadmit that she showed no signs of ever tiring of it.
They had drifted apart. They were out of touch with each other. It wasnot an uncommon state of things in the circle in which Kirk now foundhimself. Indeed, it seemed to him that the semi-detached couple cheap clarisonic mia 2
was therule rather than the exception.
But there was small consolation in this reflection. He was not at allinterested in the domestic troubles of the people he mixed with. Hisown hit him very hard.
Ruth had criticized little Mrs. Bailey, but there was no doubt that sheherself had had her head turned quite as completely by the new life.
The first time that Kirk realized this was when he came upon an articlein a Sunday paper, printed around a blurred caricature which professedto be a photograph of Mrs. Kirk Winfield, in which she was alluded towith reverence and gusto as one of society's leading hostesses. In thecourse of the article reference was made to no fewer than three freakdinners of varying ingenuity which she had provided for her delightedfriends.
It was this that staggered Kirk. That Mrs. Bailey should indulge inthis particular form of insanity was intelligible. But that Ruth shouldhave descended to it was another thing altogether.