Two of the most frequent callers
were Miss Siegel and the sallow-faced, homely man who had
danced with Anna at the Rigi Kulm pavilion.
He was an instructor in an art school From his talks with Emil and
Anna I learned of a whole world whose existence I had never even
suspected--the world of East Side art students, of the gifted boys
among them, some of whom had gone to study in Paris, of their
struggles, prospects, jealousies. I was introduced to several of
these people, but I never came into sympathetic touch with them. I
was ever conscious, never my real self in their midst.
Perhaps it was because they did not like me; perhaps it was
because I failed to appreciate a certain something that was the key
note to their mental attitude. However that may have been, I
always felt wretched in their company, and my attempts at saying
something out of the common usually missed fire
Was Anna interested in any of the young men who came to the
house? I was inclined to think that she was not, but I was not sure
Among Elsie's closest friends or "comrades" was an American
millionaire--a member of one of the best-known families in New
York--and his wife, who was a Jewess, of whom I had read in the
papers.
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