half-helplessly

Updated: July 29, 2026

Kathryn looked up, at length, anxiously. Schuyler was never abstracted. She prompted: "You were saying, Jack, dear " Schuyler drew his hand, palm out, across his forehead. "Why oh, yes," he floundered, trying to marshal his scattered thoughts. "I was saying " He appealed to Blake, half-helplessly, half-whimsically. "By Jove, that's strange. What was I saying, Tom?"

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