Somewhere she
had read that it was the proper thing to do and that men liked to be alone with
their tobacco. ‘Even the nuns they say I am like a devil. She
thought Alice a bit of a sneak, an opinion her brothers shared, and Gwen rather a
snatch at meals. "
"I know not how to act," exclaimed Jack, almost driven to desperation. Lord, what a state I was in! Night after night I sat
there, I watched her come in, I watched her go. The party resolved itself for Ann Veronica into a
game in which she manoeuvred unostentatiously and finally unsuccessfully to
avoid talking alone with this gentleman. Ann Veronica realized that she was alone with the world. But when Ruth's hand fell gently upon his bony head, he knew that
no one in this house would ever offer him a kick. Wood, in a whisper, as he filled a rummer to the
brim, not to forget the health of the Chevalier de Saint George—a proposition to
which the lady immediately responded by drinking the toast aloud. For a while they stood there, silent, motionless, staring at the doorway where
still a few strings of the bamboo curtain swayed and twisted, agitated by the
Wastrel's passage.
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