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Then she went on: "You're to take Tommy. It is Tommy's own particular desire, and you ought to feel flattered. She says your auras blend, whatever that may be; and as to Mr. Pennell, he's got a girl elsewhere whom he will ask. Three and three make six; what do you think of that?" "Julie," said Tommy Raynard composedly, "you're the most fearful liar I've ever met.
He darted at her, slipped an arm under her skirts and another under her arms, and lifted her bodily from the chair. "Jack," she shrieked, "put me down! Oh, you beast! Tommy, help, help! Peter, make him put me down and I'll forgive you all you've said." Tommy Raynard sprang up, laughing, and ran after Donovan, who could not escape her. She threw an arm round his neck and bent his head backwards.
Miss Raynard walked between Peter and Julie, and did most of the talking, but the ground was rough and the path narrow, and it was not until they got on to the dock road that much could be said. "This is the best Christmas I've ever had," declared Miss Raynard. "I'm feeling positively done up.
Julie clapped her hands and rushed at him, seizing a cushion, and the two struggled there till Tommy Raynard pulled Julie forcibly away. "Julie," she said, "this is a positive bear-garden. You must behave." "And I," said Pennell, who had not moved, "would like to know a little more about the dinner." He spoke so dryly that they all laughed, and order was restored.
But I want to tell you a bit of news Tommy Raynard and I have fixed it up. I know you'll congratulate me. She's topping, and just the girl for me no end wiser than I, and as jolly as anyone, really. I don't know how you and Julie are coming out of it, and I won't guess, for it's a dreadful war; but maybe you'll be able to sympathise with me at having to leave my girl in France!
Julie laughed. "Give me another drink, then, Captain Donovan," she said, "and I'll be good." Donovan filled up her glass. She raised it and challenged him. "Here's to we two in Blighty," she began. Miss Raynard rose determinedly and interrupted her. "Come on," she said; "that's a bit too much, Julie.
"You can never have played bridge with Julie, Captain Donovan," said Miss Raynard. "She usually flings the cards at you half way through the rubber. And she never counts. The other night she played a diamond instead of a heart, when hearts were trumps, and she had the last and all the rest of the tricks in her hand." "Ah, well," said Donovan, "women are like that.
Julie and Miss Raynard were both there, with Pennell and another man from Donovan's camp. Julie wore furs and had plainly just come in, for her cheeks were glowing with exercise. Pennell was sitting next Miss Raynard, but Donovan, on a wooden camp-seat, just beyond where Julie sat in a big cushioned chair, looked out at him from almost under Julie's arm, as he bent forward.
They often mistake diamonds for hearts." "Jack," said Julie, "you're really clever. How do you do it? I had no idea. Does it hurt? But don't do it again; you might break something. Peter, you've been praised this evening, but you'd never think of that." "He would not," said Miss Raynard.... "Come on, Julie." Peter hesitated a second. Then he said: "You're going my way. May I see you home?"
It flashed across his mind also that she knew that it was his day at the hospital, and that she had deliberately gone out; but it dawned on him equally quickly that he must hide all that. "I should jolly well think so," he said, laughing. "How do you do, Miss Raynard? Donovan, can you give me some tea? I've come along the sea-wall, and picked up a regular appetite.
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