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MacDermott paid no heed to him. "Fancy having to go all this way to see your girl," she said, as they climbed the steps of Miss Squibb's house. "In Ballyards you'd only have to go round the corner!" "I daresay," he replied, "but you wouldn't find Eleanor's match there if you went!" "No," she agreed. "Eleanor's a fine girl. I like her queer and well.
He would not be seduced from his proper work ... and yet, when he went back to Miss Squibb's after the Sensation had gone to bed, walking sometimes all the way from Fleet Street, over Blackfriars Bridge, he would spend the time of the journey in dreaming of Eleanor as he first saw her or as he saw her in the box at the Albert Hall when Tetrazzini sang.
MacDermott tightened her mouth. "Very well," she said. "I've a good mind to let the flat till you come back," John murmured to Eleanor. "What's that?" Mrs. MacDermott demanded. "I was saying I'd a good mind to let the flat until she comes back. I could go to Miss Squibb's for a while. It 'ud really be cheaper!..." "Would you let strangers walk into your house and use your furniture?" "Yes.
That had consoled him for much, and very hopefully he sent the book on its third adventure, this time to Mr. Claude Jannissary, who called himself "The Progressive Publisher." On the night before he was married, John, vaguely nervous, left his mother at Miss Squibb's and went for a walk.
She did not answer. "Of course," he went on, "we've got to get the tenants out of the flat first. I thought mebbe you'd come to Miss Squibb's with me till the flat was ready!" "I don't think I should like that," she answered. "No, mebbe not, but I'm terribly lonesome without you, Eleanor. It's been miserable all this while!..." She put her arms about him and kissed him. "Poor old thing," she said.
She was horrified when she discovered that Hinde had been stating the bare truth when he said that he had lived in Miss Squibb's house for several years, but still was ignorant of the names of his neighbours. Miss Squibb had told her that people in London made a habit of taking a house on a three-years' lease. "When it expires, they go somewhere else," she had said.
"Good-night, Mac!" The Creams returned to Miss Squibb's on the following evening, and Cream came to see Hinde and John soon after they arrived. Dolly, he said, was too tired after her journey to do more than send a friendly greeting to them. "I wanted to have a talk to you about that sketch," he said to John. "It's very good, of course, quite classy, in fact, but it wants tightening up. Snap!
A 'bus drove up as he reached the corner, and he climbed into it. "I'll come again to-morrow," he said, "and try and find her. She'll have to listen to me. I'm really in love this time!" He had been provided with a latch-key before leaving Miss Squibb's house in the morning, and, with an air of responsibility, he let himself in.
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