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Updated: June 12, 2025
The professor was holding aloof in dignified silence. "Perhaps," Tavernake said quickly, "you would take supper with me? I am going abroad, and I should like to say good-bye properly. A bottle of champagne and some supper. What do you say, Professor?" The professor suffered his features to relax. "A very admirable idea," he declared. "Where shall we go?" "Is it too late to get to Imano's?"
Soon she came back to him. "I am sorry," he said reluctantly. "I am afraid that I have spoiled your evening." "Don't be foolish, please," she replied taking his arm. "Do you believe that my father will be up in the balcony at Imano's to-night?" Tavernake nodded. "He told me so." "We will go and sit up there," she decided. "He knows where I am to be found now so it doesn't matter.
Why, what a wonderful thing these taxicabs are! You see, we have arrived." They secured a small table in a corner at Imano's, and Tavernake found himself curiously moved as he watched Beatrice take off her worn and much mended gloves and look around uneasily at the other guests. Her clothes were indeed shabby, and there were hollows now in her cheeks.
His thoughts seemed to go back to the night when he had waited for her outside the theatre and they had had supper at Imano's, to the day when he had left the boarding-house and entered upon his new life. It was more like a dream than ever now. He rose and quitted the place immediately she had finished, waiting in the street until she appeared. She came out in a few minutes.
"I ought not to have blundered it out like that. I forgot that you you were not seeing anything of him." "How did you meet him?" "By accident," he answered. "I was sitting alone up in the balcony at Imano's, and he wanted my table because he could see you from there, so we shared it, and then we began talking. I knew who he was, of course; I had seen him in your sister's room.
Tavernake, the night when you and I met in the balcony at Imano's?" "Perfectly well," Tavernake answered. "Now I shall test your memory," the professor continued, with a knowing smile. "Can you remember, sir, the brand of champagne which I was then drinking, and which I declared, if you recollect, was the one which best agreed with me, the one brand worth drinking?"
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