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Updated: July 29, 2025
It had occasionally occurred to some of the girls to question what would happen when the war was over, but they generally ended by deciding: "He'll have to come and live here, I suppose, and turn the junior room into a smoke-room". Some of the more imaginative had even ventured the suggestion that he might teach drilling and Latin.
You would have to do the same, and as you know absolutely nothing in the world about 'roughing it, you probably wouldn't like it at all." "But that is just what we should like," Meryl urged. "That is one reason why we want to come." They were sitting in the smoke-room with him, as was often their habit in the evening, preferring it, as he did, to the stately drawing-room.
Its flickering light was apparently sufficient for Adele to recognize my features. "So you are going to join the fresh-air brigade, Mr. Courage," she remarked. "I think you are very wise. We found the music-room insufferable." "I can assure you that the smoke-room is worse, Miss Van Hoyt," I answered, struggling to my feet. "Can I find your chair for you?"
In the popular imagination the Boer agent moved undiscovered amid the daily life of Cape Town; at noon in the busy street; in the club smoke-room; in the hotel dining-room a woman this time, arrayed in frocks from Paris, and keeping a table charmed by her conversation.
The situation which Lucian imagined here would be paralleled if a modern writer were blasphemously to represent the Persons of the Trinity with some eminent angels and saints discussing in a celestial smoke-room the alarming growth of unbelief in England and then by means of a telephonic apparatus overhearing a dispute between a freethinker and a parson on a public platform in London.
And then I went home. A game at billiards, a long chat in the smoke-room, ought to have distracted my mind from the little incident I had witnessed, but it did not. My bed-room faced the sea, and I drew up the blind so that I might look at it once more. The beautiful sea has many weird aspects, none stranger than when it lies heaving sullenly under the light of the moon.
He hurried on, and presently came upon Billie sitting on a garden seat, backed by the white roof of the smoke-room; beside this was a small deck which seemed to have lost its way and strayed up here all by itself. It was the deck on which one could occasionally see the patients playing an odd game with long sticks and bits of wood not shuffleboard but something even lower in the mental scale.
Here the next day Mac told the story in the smoke-room of the King's Hotel: "Well, Chiz went and you know his courtly style he has his cape over his shoulders and he salaams and says, 'Good morning, sir. "The old man looks up and says like ice: 'You got my signal yesterday afternoon? "'I did, sir. "'Then why did you not turn back and come in by the other channel?
Caske has company to-night, sir," said the maid who opened the door. "Any one I know, Mary?" "Yes, sir; Mr. Botterill and Mr. Kershaw." "Oh, well, I want to see them too. Where are they?" "In the smoke-room, sir." "Well, show me in. It will be all right." As Mr. Durnford was a frequent and privileged visitor, the girl promptly complied with his request.
My "tip" had been a good one after all and A. Carleton Heathcroft, Esquire, was richer by some seven hundred dollars, even after the expenses of treating the "smoke-room" and feeing the smoke-room steward had been deducted. I did not visit the smoke-room to share in the treat. I feared I might be expected to furnish more professional information.
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