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We aren't getting local color for an opera." "No, no; of course, you want to get away!" said Claude quickly, and stiffening with constraint. "I should love to stay on. This place fascinates me by its strangeness, its marvellous position," said Mrs. Shiffney. She looked at Claude. "But I suppose we must go back. Will you take me for a last walk before tea?" "Of course."
She even understood its reverse side, which was strongly developed in Claude. Her efforts were dedicated to the dual temperament, and beautifully. The discussion was long and animated, lasting all through dinner to the time of Turkish coffee. Claude forgot his fatigue, and Mrs. Shiffney almost forgot her caprice. She became genuinely interested in the discussion merely as a discussion.
In about three minutes she saw Mrs. Shiffney glance behind her. Max Elliot, who was still with her, got up and opened the door, and Heath stood in the background. Charmian frowned and pressed her little teeth on her lower lip. Her body felt stiff with attention, with scrutiny. She saw Heath come forward, Max Elliot holding him by the arm, and talking eagerly and smiling. Mrs.
"I'm in the midst of something." "The Puritan tradition?" "Perhaps it is that. Whatever it is, I suppose it suits me; it's in my line, so I had better stick to it." "You are bathing in the Ganges?" Her eyes were fixed upon him. "Poor Charmian Mansfield! Whom can I get for her?" Claude looked down. "I must leave that to you. I am sure you will have a very delightful party." Mrs. Shiffney got up.
Shiffney, large, powerful and glittering with jewels, came into a box immediately opposite to theirs, accompanied by Ferdinand Rades, Paul Lane, and a very smart, very French, and very ugly woman, who was covered thickly with white paint, and who looked like all the feminine intelligence of Paris beneath her perfectly-dressed red hair.
What a stroke of genius!" Mrs. Shiffney had disappeared with Rades. She loved Bach in the supper room. In the general movement which took place when the soprano had left the dais, escorted by Max Elliot, to have a glass of something, Charmian found herself beside Margot Drake, the girl with the laurel leaves. Margot and her sister Kit were extremely well known in London.
"Come right into the office, if you will!" "Hulloh!" said Crayford, a moment later to Claude. "Here's Mrs. Shiffney wants to be let in to the rehearsal! And whom with, d'you think?" "Whom?" asked Claude quickly. "Not Madame Sennier?" "Jonson Ramer." "The financier?" "Our biggest! My boy, you're booming! Old Jonson Ramer asking to come in to our rehearsal!
"Perhaps, now that you've forced him to come out into the open, he enjoys being a storm-center, as they call it out here." "Oh, but I didn't force him!" "Playfully begged him not to come, I meant." Claude was sitting a little way off talking to Susan Fleet. Mrs. Shiffney had "managed" this. She wanted to feel how things were through the woman. Then perhaps she would tackle the man.
Her cheeks were still burning when she pushed the heavy door which protected the mysterious region from the banality she had left. But there she was again carried from mood to mood. She found everyone enthusiastic. Crayford's tic was almost triumphant. His little beard bristled with an aggressive optimism. "Where's Claude?" said Charmian, not seeing him and thinking of Mrs. Shiffney.
"D'you remember meeting a funny little man called Crayford in my house one night, an impresario?" said Mrs. Shiffney, moving her shoulders, and pulling at one of her long gloves, as if she were bored and must find some occupation. "Yes, I believe I do a man with a tiny beard." "Like a little inquiring goat's! D'you know that he's searching the world to find some composer to run against Jacques?
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