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And for that they thanked the blessed common sense and sanity of Captain Drayton. And yet Anthony's idea was wrecked by "Booster's" wife. It had come too late. Anthony had overlooked the fact that his son had seventeen hours' start of him. He was unaware of the existence of Nicky's own idea; and he had not allowed for the stiff logic of his position. When he drove down in his car to St.
He had tried hard not to think what "Booster's" face would look like; he had tried hard not to laugh as long as Peggy's head was on his shoulder, for fear of hurting her feelings; but when she took it off he did give one half-strangled snort; for it really was the rummest thing that had ever happened to him.
Drayton smiled over the Master's and the Professor's letters, but when it came to Michael's letter he laughed aloud. "It's all very well for us. But Daddy and Mummy are breaking their hearts. Daddy says he's going down to Cambridge to see what really did happen." Again that clear look. She gathered that he disapproved of "Booster's" wife.
He disapproved of Vera and of her going to see Vera; she remembered that he had even disapproved, long ago, of poor Ferdie, though he liked him. Evidently he disapproved of "Booster's" wife for the same reason that he disapproved of Vera. That was why he didn't say so. "I believe you think all the time I'm right," she said. "Would you go down if you were he?" "No. I wouldn't." "Why not?"
But Michael's letter was more explicit. Nicky had been sent down because old "Booster" had got it into his head that Nicky had been making love to "Booster's" wife when she didn't want to be made love to, and nothing could get it out of "Booster's" head.
And "The Lovin' Blues." All lovin'. Jazz songs, ballads, sad, silly, boobish nut songs all about love me love me. All about stars and kisses, moonlight and "she took my man away." There are telephones all over the walls and the song booster's voice pops out over the salted-peanut section, over the safety-pin and brassware section.
Something had happened and Nicky was screening somebody. "I'll bet you anything you like," said Dorothy, "it's 'Booster's' wife. She's made him give his word." Dorothy was sure that "Booster's" wife was a bad lot. "Nicky said she was awfully decent." "He'd have to. He couldn't do it by halves." "They couldn't have sent him down, unless they'd sifted the thing to the bottom."
He couldn't tell them that "Booster's" poor little wife had lost her head and made hysterical love to him, and had been so frightened at what she had done that she had made him promise on his word of honour that, whatever happened, he wouldn't give her away to anybody, not even to his own people. He supposed that either Peggy had given herself away, or that poor old "Booster" had found her out.
Vereker, and went home to tell Frances about the letters he had written to Cambridge and the plans that had been made for Nicky's future. "He'll choose Germany," Anthony said. "But that can't be helped." Frances agreed that they could hardly have hit upon a better plan. So the affair of Nicky and "Booster's" wife was as if it had never been.
The villages of the Middle West, it asseverates, have been conquered and converted by the legions of mediocrity, and now, grown rich and vain, are setting out to carry the dingy banner, led by the booster's calliope and the evangelist's bass drum, farther than it has ever gone before to make provincialism imperialistic; so that all the native and instinctive virtues, freedoms, powers must rally in their own defense.
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