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Here you have stayed away from home all these weeks, and worked like a servant making me all those lovely lemon-squashes and things, and letting your own affairs go to wrack and ruin, and you never seemed to remember that you had any affairs, or that there was such a thing as getting tired, never seemed to remember anything except to take care of me. You are an angel there is nobody like you.
There was some ordering of lemon-squashes and further cigarettes; new packs were brought by the waiter; the players took their places; and the game was opened. With a sixpenny "ante" and a ten-shilling "limit," the amusement could have been kept mild enough by any one who preferred it should remain so. But the usual thing happened.
For the ball-room thinned; groups left one by one, going home to their hotels and chalets; the band tired obviously; people sat drinking lemon-squashes at the little tables, the men mopping their foreheads, everybody ready for bed. It was close on midnight.
"Thirsty!" said Hugh, "my outward and visible dust is nothing to what I've swallowed! Make me six lemon-squashes. But what's the matter, Kit?" She made no answer, merely turned one severe glance on him and went off to the pantry. "Do tell me, Kate," he said, after he had lowered the large jugful she brought him, and still she had made no further remark. "Nothing's happened to the bike, has it?
At the time she worked in a small candy store across the street from Gluck's shop. He used to come in and drink ice-cream sodas and lemon-squashes, and stare at her. It seems the girl did not care for him, and merely played with him.
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