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Updated: May 28, 2025
They tell me I can look through the most substantial man in the House as if he were gossamer, though I may have lunched with him the same day." Loder smiled. "By Jove!" he exclaimed. "Fate Must have been constructing this before either of us was born. It dovetails ridiculously. But I must know your colleagues even if it's only to cut them. You'll have to take me to the House." "Impossible!"
"Miss Loder is not the sort of person to imagine slights she has been out in the world too long for that. But evidently she has clearly seen your antipathetic attitude towards her, and feels that in the circumstances she cannot remain." "I have never slighted Miss Loder." Toni, frightened, sounded defiant. "Not exactly.
Once aroused, it may, it is true, reach fever heat with remarkable rapidity, but the introductory stages offer that worst danger to the earnest speaker the dread of an apathetic audience. But from this consideration Loder, by his sharp consciousness of personal difficulties, was given immunity.
"She's not in sir," she answered. "But she's expected in half an hour." "In half an hour? All right! That's all I wanted." With a movement of decision Loder walked back to the stair-head, turned to the right, and opened the door of Chilcote's rooms. The door opened on a short, wide passage; on one side stood the study, on the other the bed, bath, and dressing-rooms.
Scarcely had he sorted his notes and drawn his chair to Chilcote's desk than Renwick entered the room with the same air of important haste that he had shown on a previous occasion. "A letter from Mr. Fraide, sir. But there's no answer," he said, with unusual brevity. Loder waited till he had left the room, then he tore the letter open.
"I shall be home at eleven," she said below her breath. Loder dined with Lakely at Chilcote's club; and so absorbing were the political interests of the hour the resignation of Sir Robert Sefborough, the King's summoning of Fraide, the probable features of the new ministry that it was after nine o'clock when at last he freed himself and drove to the "Arcadian" Theatre.
"Yes," she said, nervously. "Yes, I do believe it. Such things have been " Loder caught at the words. "You're quite right," he said, quickly. "You're quite right. The thing is possible I've proved it. I know a man so like me that you, even you, could not tell us apart." Eve was silent, still averting her face. In dire difficulty he labored on.
Compared with you, Miss Loder is middle-aged, but she's a rattling secretary and I don't like to hear her abused. Still, if you dislike the idea of her coming, I'll go to town, or do without her. After all, I must not get too dependent on the girl I'm afraid I'm growing lazy. But if my arm still bothers me " Instantly Toni's anger melted away and a rush of affection and sympathy took its place.
The man eyed him half stupidly, half timidly. "Well?" Loder insisted. "Well, sir," Renwick responded, with some slowness; "you look the same and you look different. A healthier color, perhaps, sir and the eye clearer." He grew more confident under Loder's half-humorous, half-insistent gaze. "Now that I look closer, sir " Loder laughed. "That's it!" he said. "Now that you look closer.
"Then you see everything the difficulty, the isolation of the position. Five years ago three even two years ago I was able to endure it; now it gets more unbearable with every month. The day is bound to come when when" he paused, hesitating nervously "when it will be physically impossible for me to be at my post." Loder remained silent. "Physically impossible," Chilcote repeated, excitedly.
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