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Alma laughed at the arrangement, and asked Dymes if he expected her congratulations. 'Don't make fun of them, said Felix. 'Of course, they're not your sort, Alma. But I've known them all my life, and old Wellington did me more than one good turn when I was a youngster. Ada won't make much of it, but she'll squeeze in among the provincial pros after this send off.
Rolfe gone than Dymes did talk of her with the salesman, and in a way peculiar to his species, managing, with leers and half-phrases, to suggest not only that the lady was a performer of distinction, but that, like women in general, she had found his genius and his person fatally attractive. Dymes had the little weaknesses of the artistic temperament. As usual, Mrs.
If Dymes chose to speculate in hopes ludicrously phantasmal, was that her affair? She smiled at the picture of two men, her devoted servants, exerting themselves to the utmost for her advantage, yet without a syllable of express encouragement, and foredoomed to a disappointment which would be perfectly plain to them could they but use their common-sense.
I told her I might possibly see you on my way through Munich. Alma began to recover herself. That Cyrus Redgrave should still take an interest in her was decidedly more gratifying than the eccentric compliment of Felix Dymes. She strove to forget the humiliation of having been found standing in a public place, waiting for a tram-car.
Her name sufficed; at once she was respectfully conducted to a small electric-lighted room, furnished only with a table and chairs, and hung about with portraits of theatrical people, where Dymes sat by the fire smoking a cigarette. The illustrious man apologised for receiving her here, instead of in the manager's room, which he had hoped to make use of.
In the course of his free talk, it happened that he addressed her as 'Alma'. She did not check him; but when the name again fell from his lips, she said quietly, with a straight look 'I think not. The proper name, if you please. Dymes took the rebuke good-humouredly.
By-the-bye, her concert will be at the end of May Prince's Hall, most likely. You shall have a ticket. 'Very kind of you. 'You know that Mrs. Rayner Mann is giving a charity concert next week? 'I have been asked to take part in it, said Alma quietly. 'I'm awfully glad of that! shouted Dymes. 'So I shall hear you again. The fact is, you know, I don't think of you as an amateur.
'I shouldn't wonder, pursued Dymes, 'if she went to Lady Isobel and talked about her hard case, and just asked for help. At all events, last May we began to hear of Mrs. Carnaby again. Women who wanted to be thought smart had quite altered their tone about her. Men laughed, but some of them began to admit that the case was doubtful.
It would be so kind of you to give me your opinion. He pointed to a room at the back, visible between plush curtains. Alma, wishing to refuse, murmured that she had very little time; but Dymes prevailed, and she followed him. They passed into the pleasant warmth of a blazing fire.
Frothingham had left them after a fortnight's visit that he reminded Alma of her promise to go with him to Gunnersbury. 'Did I promise? she said. 'I thought we agreed that you should settle all that yourself. 'I had rather you came with me to see Mrs. Abbott. Shall it be Saturday? 'Can't, replied Alma, with a shake of the head and a smile. 'I have to see Mr. Dymes. 'Dymes? Who is he?
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