An added scene to Babylon Revisited

Activity b: Extra scene - Babylon Revisited

Charlie was confused. How could everything go sour so quickly? Yesterday, “he

woke up feeling happy. The door of the world was open again. He made plans,

vistas, future for Honoria and himself” (224). Today he was melancholy

“remembering all the plans he and Helen had made. She had not planned to die”

(224). One should never reminisce, his mother had said. It can only lead to an

unhappy ending. But he could not help it. He remembered the night of George

Hardt’s bachelor dinner {…}” (211). He remembered thousand-franc notes given

To an orchestra for playing a single number, hundred-franc notes tossed to a

doorman for calling a cab {…} His child taken from his control” (215). “When I

consented to the guardianship, I was flat on my back in a sanitarium and the

market had cleaned me out. I knew I’d acted badly, and I thought, if it would bring

any peace to Helen, I’d agree ...