They were seen, or heard of, as going about a great deal together: to
lectures, to restaurants, to entertainments in the city. But they went no
longer, for the present, to Ashburn Avenue; they took their time to
remember Randolph's repeated invitation; and there was, as yet, no further
attendance at the studio in the Square,--for any reference to the
unfinished portrait was likely to produce sharp tones and quivering
nostrils indeed.
Other invitations began to come to Cope,--some of them from people he knew
but slightly. He wondered whether his swoon and his shipwreck really could
have done so much to make him known. Sometimes when these cards seemed to
imply but a simple form of entertainment, at a convenient hour of the late
afternoon, he would attend. It did not occur to him to note that commonly
Medora Phillips was present: she was always in "active circulation," as he
put it; and there he let things lie.
One of these entertainments was an afternoon reception of ordinary type,
and the woman giving it had thrown a smallish library into closer
communication with her drawing-room without troubling to reduce the library
to order: books, pamphlets, magazines lay about in profuse carelessness.
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