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"My dear Lawrence, you certainly have the art of making your life run on wheels!" said Laura smiling. "How many telegrams have you sent today?" "If you do a thing at all you may as well do it in decent comfort," Lawrence replied sententiously. "Half past seven; that'll give us easy time! I booked a table at Malvani's, I thought you would prefer it to one of the big crowded shows."
She was only a child after all. A child, but a very gay and winning child, when she came into Malvani's with her long swaying step, direct glance, and joyous mouth.
Lawrence looked at Laura with a comical expression. "What an ass I was! Wouldn't the Ritz have been more to the point?" "Never mind, sweetheart," said Laura. "Malvani's isn't dowdily quiet. It's the smartest of the smart, and there are always a lot of distinguished people in it. Dear me, how long it is since I've dined in town!
"Are we going to have supper dinner I mean at a restaurant?" asked Isabel awestruck. Laurance smiled at her with irrepressible tenderness. "Did you think you weren't going to get anything to eat at all?" He forbore to remind her of her unfortunate allusion to sandwiches for which Isabel was grateful to him. "Aren't you hungry?" "Oh yes: but then I often am. Is Malvani's a very quiet place?"
Let them test what hold they had of her! Every aspect of their journey and of the supper-table at Malvani's, with its heady music and smell of rich food and wines, had been calculated to produce a certain effect an intoxication of excitement and pleasure.
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