CHAPTER 12
The Way of a Maid with a Man
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A FORTNIGHT or such a matter after his rebuff in the presence of outraged art -- typified by the newly finished "Sunset in Platte Cañon" -- and a week after the Draconian episode and Brant's dismissal by Mrs. Langford, Antrim took Isabel to the opera, meaning to have his answer once for all before he slept.
Another man under similar hard conditions might have hesitated to preface his _coup de grace_ matrimonial with an evening's amusement; but Antrim was wise in his generation, and he knew Isabel's leanings well enough to be sure that no other preliminary would add more to his chances of success.