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When Batchgrew and Louis, sitting side by side on the Chesterfield, began to turn over documents and peer into columns, and carry the finger horizontally across sheets of paper in search of figures, Rachel tactfully withdrew, not from the room, but from the conversation, it being her proper role to pretend that she did not and could not understand the complicated details which they were discussing.
Brown had noticed that none of her girls were quite themselves. For the last few days there had been a condition in the apartment in the Rue Brea of nerves at high tension; tempers a little uncertain; feelings a little tender. Mrs. Brown held her peace and endeavored tactfully to steer their little ménage safely over the shoals. She thought she understood Elise.
"Of course I don't pretend to have had very much schooling, but it seems to me I've read something somewhere about doing as the Romans do when you're livin' with them. At any rate, I'm sure of one thing: it's considered the polite thing to do in any country." The feeling that she had been put in the wrong, even if not very tactfully, did not tend to lessen Nora's annoyance.
Friday evening came, and after the girls had departed Claire went in search of Sophie, hoping tactfully to be able to suggest remedial methods over the week-end. She peeped into several rooms before at last, in one of the smallest and most out-of-the-way, she caught sight of a figure crouched with buried head at the far end of the table.
And with it all he felt, too, a certain officious self-importance, as he woke his wife and essayed to break the news to her in a manner tactfully calm. He had assisted at the most overwhelming event ever known in the history of the town. "Your muffler I'll get it," said Constance. "Cyril, run upstairs and get father's muffler. You know the drawer." Cyril ran.
What the young man says is true. It would be a waste of his time as well as the president's. He does not care half so much for the salesman's time there is no reason why he should but notice how tactfully he tells him that the head of the organization has no time to spend with him. He never lasts long as a salesman, though unfortunately he survives a good many years in various kinds of business.
Then, seeing his expression, she tactfully changed her tone. "I'll explain. It was the same thing that struck me the night of Blanche's party when you looked at me over Leonard Kaine's head. You remember?" She glanced away from him across the Park to where the grass was already showing greener. Chilcote felt ill at ease. Again he put his hand to his coat collar. "Oh yes," he said, hastily "yes."
As well tempt a mountain lion to inspect a piece of beautiful tapestry in the process of weaving. However tactfully I led up to the subject he walked around it without touching it. To him she was not. Reconciliation was afar off. I said good-by and left. It was this and the speech I had heard in the afternoon that occupied my mind as I wended my way home.
There was the trip to Europe he alluded to it very tactfully but he did not speak as if it were to be made alone. And then he spoke of his plans for the Tecolote, and further conquests that would startle the world. There was Mexico, a vast treasure-house, barely scratched by the prospector; his star would soon lead him there.
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