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Updated: May 25, 2025
What made you come down again? Pa must have listened like anything." "I didn't come down," Jenny said, in a slow, passionless voice. "I hadn't gone to bed. I was out. I'd been out all the evening ... since quarter-to-nine." iv At first Emmy could not understand. She stood, puzzled, unable to collect her thoughts. "Jenny!" at last she said, unbelievingly. Accusing impulses showed in her face.
Then, turning on the Duke with a frown, she said: "I think that joke of yours about the train was simply disgraceful, Jacques. A joke's a joke, but to send us out to the station on a night like last night, through all that heavy rain, when you knew all the time that there was no quarter-to-nine train it was simply disgraceful."
"I really don't know what you're talking about," said the Duke quietly. "Wasn't there a quarter-to-nine train?" "Of course there wasn't," said Germaine. "The time-table was years old. I think it was the most senseless attempt at a joke I ever heard of." "It doesn't seem to me to be a joke at all," said the Duke quietly. "At any rate, it isn't the kind of a joke I make it would be detestable.
I missed the quarter-to-nine 'bus to the City, through having words with the grocer's boy, who for the second time had the impertinence to bring his basket to the hall- door, and had left the marks of his dirty boots on the fresh- cleaned door-steps. He said he had knocked at the side door with his knuckles for a quarter of an hour.
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