Mrs. Ansley made that statement to Mrs. Slade as the two women were leaving the Roman restaurant where they had spent the day together. During the time the women spent together not only did they discuss the past but Mrs. Slade confessed that many years prior when the ladies were young she had suspected Mrs. Ansley and Mr. Slade were romantically involved. Mrs. Ansley had met Mr. Slade one night and there is the possibility that they were romantically involved. This causes there

I feel that those three words can have two different meanings. The first is that Mrs. Ansley doesn’t care what Mrs. Slade did she is just happy that she has her daughter. The other is Mrs. Ansley did have an affair with Mr. Slade after all and that Barbara is actually Mr. Slade’s child. Both of these interpretations can be valid, however I feel that Mrs. Ansley did actually have an affair with Mr. Slade. That statement is very ambiguous for a few reasons. First of all nothing else is written after that line so there is absolutely no explanation or reaction from Mrs. Slade. This made me have to read the story many more times until I found all of the clues that I felt proved that there had been an affair. However the clues that I have found are also very ambiguous and can mean other things as well. I do not feel that it is difficult to tell that Mrs. Ansley had an affair with Mr. Slade. The real question however, is who is Barbara’s father?

The end of the story is the most ambiguous and very heated between the two women. In the very last few lines of the story Mrs. Ansley reveals to Mrs. Slade that she had actually met Mr. Slade that night at the Collesseum. Mrs. Ansley had replied to the fake letter and did end up meeting Mr. Slade at the Collesseum that night. Obviously Mrs. Slade was in shock because what she thought had been a perfect plan had actually backfired. Mrs. Ansley is very hurt at this point and I feel becomes sort of sarcastic. Mrs. Ansley states, “…I’m sorry for you”(634 Wharton). Mrs. Ansley made this statement to Mrs. Slade as they were leaving. This could either mean that she is sorry that her plan had failed or she is sorry for what she is about to reveal to her. She goes on to say, “…I didn’t have to wait that night”(634Wharton). This is when Mrs. Ansley begins to reveal to Mrs. Slade that she had been with her fiancé that night. Mrs. Slade probably had no idea what Mrs. Ansley was talking about at this point. Trying to get Mrs. Ansley back Mrs. Slade states, “ Yes; I was beaten there. But I oughn’t to begrudge it to you…I had him for twenty-five years. And you had nothing but that one letter that he didn’t write”(634 Wharton). That is when Mrs. Ansley proudly states “ I had Barbara”(634 Wharton). Those are the most important words in the whole st

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