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Updated: May 13, 2025
You say the Knights are a bad lot, and Lorelei's reputation is a trifle discolored: maybe you're right, but mine has some inky blots on it, too, and I guess the cleanest part of it would just about match the darkest that hers can show. I seem to have all the best of the deal." "Don't be an ass," growled his father.
When Adoree finally came forth in one of Lorelei's aprons really a fetching garment, more like a house dress than an apron Bob told her whom they were expecting as the other guest. She paused with a bread-knife upraised. "That VIPER?" she cried. "Campbell isn't a viper; he's a cricket a dramatic cricket," declared Bob. Adoree began to undo the buttons at her back, but Bob seized her hands.
Bert Hayman drove the Whartons out from the city, and Lorelei's first glimpse of Fennellcourt was such that she forgot her vague dislike of Hayman himself. Bert, who had met her and Bob for luncheon, had turned out to be, instead of a polished man of the world, a glib youth with an artificial laugh and a pair of sober, heavy-lidded eyes.
The domestic arrangements that resulted were of necessity unhappy, for the housework was allowed to take care of itself. The male members shifted as best they could, and the home was forever in slovenly confusion. Nevertheless, the existing condition of affairs met the approval of all; and the three conspirators lived in a constant state of eager expectation over Lorelei's fortunes.
Think that over, too, when your own father is dead and gone." White with anger, sick with disappointment, Mrs. Knight whisked herself out of the apartment. Bob returned in excellent spirits nothing had power permanently to dampen his cheerfulness and, seizing Lorelei's hand, he slipped a diamond ring upon her third finger, then a plain gold band over that.
At Lorelei's entrance he smiled and nodded without rising, then continued his earnest conversation with Miss Lynn. None of their words were audible to the last comer until Melcher rose to leave; then Lilas halted him with a nervous laugh, saying: "Remember, if it doesn't go, it's a joke, and I run to cover." "It will go," he told her, quietly, as he strolled out.
It's Campbell Pope, the critic." Mr. Pope had risen and was slouching toward them. He took Lorelei's hand, then shot a sharp glance at her escort as the girl introduced them. Accepting Jim's mumbled invitation, he seated himself and instructed a waiter to bring his coffee.
Lorelei's anger at her betrayal was so keen that she dared not send for Bob immediately for fear of speaking too violently, but she assured herself that she would leave in the morning, even though he chose to remain. Still in a blazing temper, she disrobed and sat down to calm herself and to wait for her husband.
If you have a reputation it won't do to parade it in a show-case. We'll take a taxi." Lorelei's relief must have been obvious, for Adoree sped swiftly to the corner, then was back again without the dog. "If there's anything more conspicuous than a blonde with a white poodle," she explained, "it's two blondes with two poodles." Then, she flung herself into the cab and slammed the door.
She even smiled contemptuously as she looked back upon the way she had fooled Bob Wharton and the concern he had shown for Lorelei. Then of a sudden Lilas awoke to the fact that she disliked hated Bob's wife. It seemed as if she had always hated her. Perhaps it was because of Lorelei's beauty or her superior ways, or yes, because of her clean soul that nothing had been able to smirch.
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