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The same partners cut together again, and this time the cards went distinctly against Francesca and Ada Spelvexit, and a heavily piled-up score confronted them at the close of the rubber. Francesca was conscious that a certain amount of rather erratic play on her part had at least contributed to the result. St.
Only one table was incomplete when Francesca made her appearance on the scene; at it was seated Serena herself, confronted by Ada Spelvexit, whom everyone was wont to explain as "one of the Cheshire Spelvexits," as though any other variety would have been intolerable. Ada Spelvexit was one of those naturally stagnant souls who take infinite pleasure in what are called "movements."
"A strong man with a wonderfully strong message," said Ada Spelvexit, in an impressive and assertive tone. "The sort of popular pulpiteer who spanks the vices of his age and lunches with them afterwards," said Lady Caroline. "Hardly a fair summary of the man and his work," protested Ada.
'If they had never existed, I said, 'Granville Barker would have been certain to have invented something that looked exactly like them. If you say things like that, quite loud, in a Tube lift, they always sound like epigrams." "I think you ought to do something about Louise," said the dowager. "I'm trying to think whether she was with me when I called on Ada Spelvexit.
"I meant the place of caviare sandwiches. So sorry to trouble you," persisted the young lady Her sorrow was misapplied; Lady Caroline had turned her attention to a newcomer. "A very interesting exhibition," Ada Spelvexit was saying; "faultless technique, as far as I am a judge of technique, and quite a master-touch in the way of poses. But have you noticed how very animal his art is?
"I don't mind what we play," said Ada Spelvexit, with an incautious parade of elegant indifference; as a matter of fact she was inwardly relieved and rejoicing at the reasonable figure proposed by Lady Caroline, and she would certainly have demurred if a higher stake had been suggested. She was not as a rule a successful player, and money lost at cards was always a poignant bereavement to her.
"No one has ever said it," observed Lady Caroline, "but how painfully true it is that the poor have us always with them." Ada Spelvexit hastened her departure; the marred impressiveness of her retreat came as a culminating discomfiture on the top of her ill-fortune at the card-table.
If the picture typified harvest, it was a harvest of artificial growth. "It leaves a great deal to the imagination, doesn't it?" said Ada Spelvexit, who had edged away from the range of Lady Caroline's tongue. "At any rate one can tell who it's meant for," said Serena Golackly. "Oh, yes, it's a good likeness of dear Francesca," admitted Ada; "of course, it flatters her."
Michael's incursion into the conversation had proved rather a powerful distraction to her ordinarily sound bridge-craft. Ada Spelvexit emptied her purse of several gold pieces and infused a corresponding degree of superiority into her manner. "I must be going now," she announced; "I'm dining early. I have to give an address to some charwomen afterwards."
Ada Spelvexit and a boy in the Foreign Office were at present at the top of the list with five recitals each to their score, but the former was suspected of doubtful adherence to the rules and spirit of the competition. "And there, dear lady," concluded the Colonel, "were the eleven dead pigeons. What had become of the bandicoot no one ever knew."
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