This was to be paid for, as
usual, mostly by the firm's notes secured by its other property. It
would become available only in the future, but Orde believed, as
indeed the event justified, this future would prove to be not so
distant as most people supposed.
As these interests widened, Orde became more and more immersed in
them. He was forced to be away all of every day, and more than the
bulk of every year. Nevertheless, his home life did not suffer for
it.
To Carroll he was always the same big, hearty, whole-souled boy she
had first learned to love. She had all his confidence. If this did
not extend into business affairs, it was because Orde had always
tried to get away from them when at home. At first Carroll had
attempted to keep in the current of her husband's activities, but as
the latter broadened in scope and became more complex, she perceived
that their explanation wearied him. She grew out of the habit of
asking him about them. Soon their rapid advance had carried them
quite beyond her horizon. To her, also, as to most women, the word
"business" connoted nothing but a turmoil and a mystery.
In all other things they were to each other what they had been from
the first.
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