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On the Spot. A nightmare week in the dingy waiting-room ... thoughts probing the mind, stabbing the heart.... Nine till one, a cup of tea and a roll at an A.B.C. shop, an aimless walk in the park; two till six, good-night to the stout young woman named Miss Porter in "Enquiries," home to the rattling mews and to Missus. On the Spot. Occasional interviews.
He could almost see her as she tramped along through the snow, the lovely heroine of the most romantic walk of all romantic walks on Baldpate to date. Half-way to the waiting-room where she had wept so bitterly; half-way to the curious station agent with the mop of ginger hair.
Joe jumped up, and we trotted slowly through the park and through the village, where the people were standing at their doors to have a last look and to say, "God bless them." When we reached the railway station I think mistress walked from the carriage to the waiting-room. I heard her say in her own sweet voice, "Good-by, John. God bless you."
It was half-past five when he reached the house. His wife was not here, and had not been here. At this Moment Monica was starting by train from Bayswater, after her parting with Bevis. Arrived at Victoria, she crossed to the main station, and went to the ladies' waiting-room for the purpose of bathing her face. She had red, swollen eyes, and her hair was in slight disorder.
The waiting-room of a big department-store was not the place Peter would have selected for the pouring out of his heart; but he had to make the best of it, so he told Nell that he loved her, that he would never be able to love anybody else, and that he had made piles of money now, he was high up on the ladder of prosperity.
Royalty had on a time sat in this room: here granted audience to the great's higher circle, of greatness; there, beyond that door, nowadays admitting ragged sufferers from a fourth-class "waiting-room," slept in state with doubtless royal snores. This, in fact, was the old Dabney House's famous "state suite," Vivian's office the culminating grand sitting-room, the building art's best in the '40s.
When one grows older, the power, usually, departs, but while it lasts it may descend upon a man at any moment. 'Who is Kim Kim Kim? He squatted in a corner of the clanging waiting-room, rapt from all other thoughts; hands folded in lap, and pupils contracted to pin-points.
The door of the waiting-room opened and Sor Teresa stood on the threshold. "I have come back," said Juanita. "I think I shall go into religion. I have left Torre Garda." She gave a short laugh and looked curiously at Sor Teresa impassive in her straight-hanging robes. "So you have got me back," she said. "Back to the convent." "Not to this convent," replied Sor Teresa, quietly.
In memory she saw her flowers, as in the carpets she could trace patterns hardly visible now to other eyes. On going into the spacious anteroom, where twelve chairs, a barometer, a large stove, and long, white cotton curtains, bordered with red, suggested the dreadful waiting-room of a Government office, the visitor felt oppressed, conscious at once of the isolation in which the mistress lived.
We had just reached the coffee, when the waiter came up and said that Jeeves wanted to see me. Jeeves was in the waiting-room. He gave the socks one pained look as I came in, then averted his eyes. "Mr. Bassington-Bassington has just telephoned, sir." "Oh?" "Yes, sir." "Where is he?" "In prison, sir." I reeled against the wallpaper.
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