3703. Often she had begged her husband to provide her with a
carriage, horses and attendants of her own, and, although he always agreed, he
somehow always put it of for the time being, and never got around to it.
3704. Gradually Natalie began to take a vicarious interest
in her neighbor Harriet’s affairs, and had lately even made so bold as to make
suggestions about the designs of the uniforms Alexis wore. From the foregoing
you may be beginning to suspect that Natalie was also overly interested in
Alexis, and if that is what you think, I will tell you outright that you are
correct in your assumption.
3705. The fact was that all the wives in the neighborhood
were silently in love with Alexis, and so to were the maids in the various
households, and even the older women who worked in the dairies, and the barns
knew of him if only by rumor.
3706. What did Alexis look like and how can we describe him,
in order to justify this inordinate interest he produced in all the women of
the neighborhood? If you had asked Natalie she would have simply said that
Alexis was “curly headed,” and it is easy to accept that as a complete
description. It is a complete description because, in the way it was said, and
in the tenderness of the expression, all the rest of the boy’s appearance can
be imagined.
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