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Speakin' of dinners, this talk of ours is like that everlastin' long meal that you and I went to at Barney Black's house just after we landed in Scarford. You remember it took half an hour to get to anything solid in that dinner, don't you? Yes, well, I'm just gettin' to the meat of my talk. And I want Gertie to come in on that course. She is on her way downstairs now; I hear her. Hi!
"This was long before I came on the scene," explained Mr. Trew to Gertie; "otherwise there would have been bloodshed. Is this meal ad lib., or do I have to pay extra for another cup of tea?" "I don't want her to worry about it; I only want her to keep it in view.
With the customers in the bar he exchanged remarks of so frivolous a nature in passing that the landlady nearly dropped the glass she was wiping, and then, crimson with indignation, as the door swung behind him, realised that the melancholy and usually respectful Nibletts had thought fit to publicly address her as "Gertie."
Her tone was quite serious, but there was an odd expression in her eye. Mr. Holway, blond, immaculate and blase, bowed. Then he, too, started. "Eh!" he exclaimed. "Why, by Jove!" Captain Dan nodded. "Yes," he observed, quietly. "Well, I'm much obliged to you, Gertie, but Mr. Holway and I have met before." Gertrude's surprise, real or assumed, was great. "Have you?" she cried. "Why, how odd! When?"
Aside from the fact that she looked pale and tired, there was nothing in her face to suggest that she had had a crisis of the nerves: certainly no look of defeat for Gertie to gloat over. Would they all be there to witness her retreat? Well, let them: no one could say that she had not gone out with flying colors. She turned, with a smile to meet Frank's gaze. "That's right," he said approvingly.
Gertie carefully stuck her embroidery needle into her doily, rolled up the doily meticulously, laid it down on the center-table, straightened the pile of magazines which Carl had deranged, and rose. "But I'm glad you could drop up this evening. Come up any time you haven't anything better to do. Oh what about our tramp? If you know some place that is better than Bronx Park, we might try it."
Did you see the way she was dressed? I never " "Hush, Daniel! That was the old Greek costume. Miss Canby told me all about it; the old Greeks used to dress like that." "They did! Then it didn't take 'em long. Brazen thing! Why!" with a sudden turn upon his daughter, "Gertie Gertie Dott, stop fussin' with that book and listen to me. You were there; I saw you lookin' on.
Dott and Gertie to want to advance and and so on, I cal'late 'tain't silly for me either. Perhaps you'd like to have me tell Serena that you said she was silly. Shall I?" Daniel did not answer, but his look was answer sufficient. Azuba smiled triumphantly. "Practical," she sneered. "No, Cap'n Daniel, I ain't been practical so far, but I'm goin' to be. I'm a-goin' to be. You watch me."
I'm sayin' five THOUSAND; do you understand?" "I understand. I'm not surprised. Living as we do, and moving in the in the best society as we have, the expense is large, naturally. You must expect that." "Expect! Gertie Baker Dott, STOP talkin' that way! Our income, not countin' what the store at Trumet is fetchin' in, ain't over six thousand at the outside. Six thousand a YEAR, that is.
Awkwardly he said: "You mustn't talk like that.... Gee! Gertie, we'll be in a regular 'scene, if you don't watch out!... We're just good friends, and you can always bank on me, same as I would on you." "But why must we be just friends?" He wanted to be rude, but he was patient.
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