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Then, turning on his lights, he moved ponderously and jauntily to his wife's door and knocked discreetly. Leila Mortimer came to the door and opened it; her hair was coiled for the night, her pretty figure outlined under a cascade of clinging lace. "What is the matter?" she asked quietly. "Are you point-shooting to-morrow?" "I wanted to chat with you." "I'm sorry.
She had risen very late, unconscious of the stir and movement before dawn; and it was only when a maid told her, as she came from her bath, that she remembered the projected point-shooting, and concluded, with an odd, happy sense of relief, that she was almost alone in the house.
She said something to Grace Ferrall about the mist promising good point-shooting in the morning, took the order book from a servant, jotted down her request to be called an hour before sunrise, filled in the gun-room records with her score the species and number bagged, and the number of shells used and accepting the tea offered, drew out a tiny cigarette-case of sweet-bay wood heavily crusted with rose-gold.
And a point-shooting picnic in snugly elaborate blinds was popular with women or was supposed to be.
And now, this last week, it had come upon him that the time was now; the skirmish was already on; and it had alarmed him suddenly to find that the skirmish was already a battle, and a rough one. As he stood there he heard voices on the stairs. People had already begun to retire, because late cards and point-shooting at dawn do not agree.
The evening previous, to his intense disgust, host, hostess, and guests had retired early, in view of the point-shooting at dawn. For not only was there to be no point-shooting for him, but he had risen from the card-table heavily hit; and besides, for the first time his apples and port had disagreed with him. As he had not risen until mid-day he was not sleepy.
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