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Ibrahim came up and stood beside her, looking down in his very gentle and individual way. He smoothed the front of his djelabieh, lifted his rose, smelt it, and said in his low contralto voice: "We are goin' across the river, my lady." "Are we?" "We are goin' to take our lunchin'; we are goin' to be out all day." "Oh! And what about tea?"
"It's in General Orders this morning, sir you've got a commission, an' Mr. Brandspeth says that the mess will be expectin' you to lunch at one-thirty." Tam sat down on the bed, biting his lip. "Get oot, Angus," he said huskily, "an' stay you! Ye'll find a seegair in the box under the bed an', Angus, A'm lunchin' oot to-morrow."
But presently he looked in again. "I reckon you won't mind lunchin' alone to-day" he was shuffling himself into his overcoat "because I just thought I'd go up to the house and get THIS over with mamma." He glanced apologetically toward his right hand as it emerged from the sleeve of the overcoat.
For out in Madison Square park the robins were hoppin' busy around in the flower beds, couples were twosing confidential on the benches, lady typists were lunchin' off ice cream cones, and the Greek tray peddlers were sellin' May flowers. Anyway, it seemed like this was a day when romance was in the air, if you get me.
And with that we swaps grins. "Oh, I say, Torchy," calls out Mr. Robert, as I'm reachin' for my hat here the other noon, "you don't happen to be going up near the club on your way to luncheon, do you?" "Not today," says I. "I'm lunchin' with the general staff." "Oh!" says he, grinnin'. "In that case never mind."
He'd been breakfastin' an' lunchin' ever since we'd come in, an' he was as full as a tick. "Faith ye've got dhrunk mighty soon, he sez, whin I'd tould him, 'to see that man walk. Barrin' a puff or two av life, he was a corpse before we left Jumrood. I've a great mind, he sez, 'to confine you. "There's a dale av liquor runnin' about, docthor, I sez, solemn as a hard-boiled egg.
An' just naturally your ma didn't know what to make of it. "He couldn't explore the attic an' rig up in the old clothes there any more, nor romp through the garden, nor go lunchin' in the woods, nor none of the things she wanted him to do. He didn't have time.
He'd timed hisself to reach here punctual for the lunchin' the Missus always has ready on Confirmation Day: nobody to meet his Lordship but theirselves and the two Churchwardens; an' you may guess that Hancock and Truslove had turned up early in their best broadcloth, lookin' to have the time o' their lives.
Robert, and as he was still out lunchin' I scouts over to his club, and finds him stowed away at a corner table with this chatty playwright party. He's quite a swell, Oakley is, you know; and I guess with one Broadway hit in its second year, and a lot of road comp'nies out, he can afford to flit around under the white lights. Him and Mr.
"'Now this is where that bluff about bread on the waters comes in; an' it falls so pat on the heels of them devotions of mine, it he'ps brand it on my mem'ry. While I'm layin' thar, an' mighty likely while them coyotes is lunchin' offen my scabbard that a-way, along comes a rank stranger they calls Spanish Bill. "'I learns afterward how this Spanish Bill is hard, plumb through.
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