CHAPTER XVI

FOR a full month life went on at the Universal Advertising Agency and in the home of Mr. Charles Morris with only gradual change. Morris relapsed into his self-contained abstraction, which was becoming habitual to him at home. His wife noticed it, of course, but without paying particular attention to it. So far she had not been compelled to make any unusual demand upon his good nature or his patience. She grew accustomed to his moody periods of thought. Nor was it surprising that Morris should be moody and thoughtf…