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There was a lady leaning back in a corner, wrapped to the chin in a fur garment, and the young man, encountering through his eyeglass her cool, ironical glance, dropped it and held out his hand. "Ah, Mrs. Bellew, great pleasure t'see you again so soon. You goin' up to town? Jolly dance last night, wasn't it? Dear old sort, the Squire, and Mrs. Pendyce such an awf'ly nice woman." Mrs.
"Some day I shall keep an awf'ly good parlour-maid," Marie promised herself. She went in to criticise and retouch her mother's painstaking arrangements. She grew flushed and irritated over the cooking. "And a good cook," she added. "What dreams!" Julia looked a good deal at Marie during dinner in the delusive light of the shaded candles, and at last she said: "You're thinner.
"I did not suppose you would go out to shoot the poor, innocent little rabbits, Mr. Sweet," said Laura, with sober face but dancing eyes. "They have never done you any harm." "I bet a real bad rabbit would make Purt run," muttered Bobby. "Oh, Miss Belding!" said the school dandy. "You know I'm awf'ly keen on sport awf'ly keen, doncher know.
"Oh, that's awf'ly nice," Angle thought. He thanked her humbly. "We didn't expect to see you here," Josie assured him. "We just thought we'd like some soda." "Soda!" he parroted, horrified. He cast a glance askance at the tawdry fountain. "Let's see: how d'you work the infernal thing?" he asked himself, utterly bewildered. "Yes," Angie chimed in; "it's so warm this afternoon, we "
Osborn was silent, biting his lips; and presently Marie looked up, and seeing his face, drew it down and kissed him, crying: "Oh, I'm a beast; forgive me! But I'm so tired, and somehow so so ragged." "Poor darling!" "You'd better go and bathe, Osborn. We're late as it is." "So we are, by Jove! Look, I'll be awf'ly quick this morning, and come and help you. That'll be some good, won't it?"
At the toll-gate Dam released the perspiration-soaked wretch, who had suffered the torments of the damned, and who seemed to have met every man and woman whom he knew in the world as he paraded the promenade hanging lovingly to the arm of a common soldier! He thought of suicide and shuddered at the bare idea. "Well, I'm awf'ly sorry to have to run away and leave you now, dear Haddock.
Osborn's out a good deal in the evenings, like other men, of course. There's one thing it leaves me very free. There's always something to be done, you see, and I can get through a great deal in the evenings if he's out." "And if he's in?" "Oh well, a man likes one to sit down and talk to him, naturally." "How awf'ly obliging wives are!"
It's a floor a good deal like this floor is to-night just about oily enough and as nice a floor as ever I danced on. We have awf'ly good times up at the lake. 'Course there aren't so many Men up there, like there are here to-night, and I MUST say I AM glad to get a chance to dance with a Man again!
"Am I not, old man?" said Osborn, looking at the colour of his ale with a kind of smiling remoteness. "Well ... this is it ... how does one put it?... Well, here it is. Next September there'll be three people instead of two at No. 30 Welham Mansions." "By Jove!" said Rokeby. "You must be awf'ly pleased!" "Simply off my head! So's Marie."
She began to chatter, as if to slur over a momentary confusion. "I've only been in ten minutes, and I was going to settle down to a lonely evening. I'm awf'ly glad to have you, Marie darling. If Mr. Rokeby's going to stay he'll have to be useful. I'm afraid you find me almost déshabillée, but I'm one of these sloppy bachelors, as you know."
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