noon
Next morning he hated himself that he should have sunk into a position where a fifteenth-rater like Fulton Bemis could rebuke him . He perceived that , since he was making love to every woman possible , Tanis was no longer his one pure star , and he wondered whether she had ever been anything more to him than A Woman . And if Bemis had spoken to him , were other people talking about him ? He suspiciously watched the men at the Athletic Club that noon . It seemed to him that they were uneasy . They had been talking about him then ? He was angry .