about noon
She was very tender with him , walking up to the hotel , and all that evening she kept him amused , so that he would not want to look at his manuscript . She used him , as a wife is apt to use her husband when he is fretted and not very well , as if he were her little boy , and she did this so sweetly that Maxwell could not resent it . The next morning she let him go to his play again , and work all the morning . He ended about noon , and told her he had done what she wanted done to the love-business , he thought , but he would not show it to her , for he said he was tired of it , and would have to go over it with Godolphin , at any rate , when he came in the afternoon . They went to the beach , but the person with the smouldering eyes failed to appear , and in fact they did not see her again at Magnolia , and they decided that she must have been passing a few days at one of the other hotels , and gone away . Godolphin arrived in the sunniest good-humor , as if he had never had any thought of relinquishing the play , and he professed himself delighted with the changes Maxwell had made in the love-business . He said the character of Salome had the true proportion to all the rest now ; and Maxwell understood that he would not be jealous of the actress who played the part , or feel her a dangerous rival in the public favor .