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You know you like that better than boring yourself to death at Redlands. 'Never mind that. How did you enjoy your drive? 'Immensely, and I've asked both the little Ottleys to come to dinner tomorrow one of those impulsive, unconsidered invitations that one regrets the second after. I must make up a little party. Will you come?
Edith especially was impressed; because the fact that Madame Frabelle was a guest, and was managing nothing, did not prevent her talking as if she had any amount of experience on the subject, although, by her own showing she had been staying at hotels ever since the war began, except the last weeks she had spent with the Ottleys. The men soon joined them.
People who disagreed on every other subject agreed in liking Vincy. But he did not care in the least for acquaintances, and spent much ingenuity in trying to avoid them; he only liked intimate friends, and of all he had perhaps the Ottleys were his greatest favourites. His affection for them dated from a summer they had spent in the same hotel in France.
As she was a hospital nurse, it seemed to him natural to talk rather of his own indisposition than on any other subject. Dulcie was rather highly strung, and Bruce got terribly on her nerves; she marvelled at Edith's patience. But then Edith.... No, she could not go to the Ottleys. Her other gift a beautiful soprano voice also was of hardly any use to her, as she was now placed.
She put it under her pillow, resolving to send it by a messenger the first thing in the morning, and went to sleep. But this letter, like the others, was never sent. By the morning light she marvelled at having written it, and threw it into the fire. The Troubles of the Ottleys 'Bruce', said Edith, 'you won't forget we're dining with your people tonight? 'It's a great nuisance. 'Oh, Bruce!
The way he takes his authority as a husband seriously is pathetic. He hasn't the faintest idea the girl is cleverer than he is. 'You'd far better leave her alone, and not point it out, said Anne. 'You're always bothering about these little Ottleys now. But you've been very restless lately.
Frivolous friends of his who did not know her might amuse themselves by being humorous and flippant about Vincy's little Ottleys, but no-one who had ever seen them together could possibly make a mistake. They were an example of the absurdity of a tradition 'the world's' proneness to calumny. Such friendships, when genuine, are never misconstrued.
More of the Little Ottleys 'Fancy! said Edith. 'Fancy what? 'Somehow I never should have thought it, said Edith thoughtfully. 'Never should have thought what? You have a way of assuming I know the end of your story before I've heard the beginning. It's an annoying method, said Bruce. 'I shouldn't have been so surprised if they had been anywhere else. But just there, continued Edith.
The whole of this story turns eventually on the Mitchells. The Ottleys lived in a concise white flat at Knightsbridge. Bruce's father had some time ago left him a good income on certain conditions; one was that he was not to leave the Foreign Office before he was fifty.
She had an extraordinary amount of personal magnetism, since she convinced both the Ottleys, as she had convinced Lady Conroy, that she was wonderfully clever: in fact, that she knew everything. A fortnight had passed, and Edith was beginning to grow doubtful. Was she so clever? Did she know everything? Did she know anything at all?
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