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"It would be rather fun," said Tanny. "Wouldn't it!" cried Josephine. "Oh, Josey, dear!" cried Julia hysterically. "Isn't she a red-hot Bolsher! I should be frightened." "No!" cried Josephine. "I should love it." "So should I," said Jim, in a luscious sort of voice. "What price machine-guns at the end of the Strand! That's a day to live for, what?" "Ha! Ha!" laughed Clariss, with her deep laugh.
"No, I don't think I have," he answered. "I hope personification is right. Ought to be allegory or something else?" This from Clariss to Robert. "Or a parable, Clariss," laughed the young lieutenant. "Goodbye," said Tanny. "I've been awfully bored." "Have you?" grinned Jim. "Goodbye! Better luck next time." "We'd better look sharp," said Robert, "if we want to get the tube."
But for Judas the whole show would have been manque." "Oh yes," said Jim. "Judas was inevitable. I'm not sure that Judas wasn't the greatest of the disciples and Jesus knew it. I'm not sure Judas wasn't the disciple Jesus loved." "Jesus certainly encouraged him in his Judas tricks," said Tanny. Jim grinned knowingly at Lilly. "Then it was a nasty combination.
Tanny looked from man to man. "I could feel it coming on me," said Jim. "Of course!" said Tanny. "Rawdon doesn't know the things he says." She was pleased that he had had to pay for them, for once. It takes a man a long time to get his breath back, after a sharp blow in the wind. Lilly was managing by degrees. The others no doubt attributed his silence to deep or fierce thoughts.
She was half Norwegian, and had spent a large part of her life in Norway, before she married Lilly. "Yes, so do I," said Josephine. "But if one must earn one's living one must stay here. I wish I could get back to Paris. But there's nothing doing for me in France. When do you go back into the country, both of you?" "Friday," said Lilly. "How lovely for you! And when will you go to Norway, Tanny?"
Jim walked rather sheepishly, as if cut out. So they came at last past the canals to the wayside station: and at last Jim's train came. They all said goodbye. Jim and Tanny were both waiting for Lilly to show some sign of real reconciliation. But none came. He was cheerful and aloof. "Goodbye," he said to Jim. "Hope Lois will be there all right. Third station on. Goodbye! Goodbye!"
"Bread'll do," said Jim. "Sit down and eat it. Have cocoa with it," said Tanny. "No, I like to have it in my bedroom." "You don't eat bread in the night?" said Lilly. "I do." "What a funny thing to do." The cottage was in darkness. The Lillys slept soundly. Jim woke up and chewed bread and slept again. In the morning at dawn he rose and went downstairs.
And I need him too. I need his support. Yes, I do love him." "But you like Scott better," said Tanny. "Only because he he's different," sang Julia, in long tones. "You see Scott has his art. His art matters. And ROB-ert Robert is a dilettante, don't you think he's dilettante " She screwed up her eyes at Tanny. Tanny cogitated. "Of course I don't think that matters," she replied.
Tanny went away to Norway to visit her people, for the first time for three years. Lilly did not go: he did not want to. He came to London and settled in a room over Covent Garden market. The room was high up, a fair size, and stood at the corner of one of the streets and the market itself, looking down on the stalls and the carts and the arcade.
He let the Lillys see it "Meet you for a walk on your return journey Lois." At once Tanny wanted to know all about Lois. Lois was a nice girl, well-to-do middle-class, but also an actress, and she would do anything Jim wanted. "I must get a wire to her to meet me tomorrow," he said. "Where shall I say?"
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