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Updated: September 21, 2025
When the curtain came down for the end of the act, the men got up. Lilly's wife, Tanny, suddenly appeared. She had come on after a dinner engagement. "Would you like tea or anything?" Lilly asked. The women refused. The men filtered out on to the crimson and white, curving corridor. Julia, Josephine and Tanny remained in the box. Tanny was soon hitched on to the conversation in hand.
Josephine, who had been gazing down into the orchestra, turned now, flushing darkly. "But I don't want a lover, Julia," she said, hurt. "Josephine dear! Dear old Josephine! Don't you really! Oh, yes, you do. I want one so BADLY," cried Julia, with her shaking laugh. "Robert's awfully good to me. But we've been married six years. And it does make a difference, doesn't it, Tanny dear?"
None of the people in the box were quite real to him. He was not really amused. Julia found him dull, stupid. Tanny also was offended that he could not perceive her. The men remained practically silent. "You're a chap I always hoped would turn up again," said Jim. "Oh, yes!" replied Aaron, smiling as if amused. "But perhaps he doesn't like us!
"Of course," she replied, "one can't decide such a thing like drinking a cup of tea." "Of course, one can't, dear Tanny," said Julia. "After all, one doesn't leave one's husband every day, to go and live with another man. Even if one looks on it as an experiment ." "It's difficult!" cried Julia. "It's difficult! I feel they all want to FORCE me to decide. It's cruel."
Josephine flushed darkly, and turned away. "Ah, he's not so innocent as all that," said Tanny roughly. "Those young young men, who seem so fresh, they're deep enough, really. They're far less innocent really than men who are experienced." "They are, aren't they, Tanny," repeated Julia softly. "They're old older than the Old Man of the Seas, sometimes, aren't they?
It would be no sin, an' no disgrace, to hang for the like of him; dacenter to do that, than stale a creel of turf, or a wisp of straw, 'tanny rate." In the meantime the bailiff had raised his head out of the water, and presented a visage which it was impossible to view with gravity.
"How nice it will be for you, walking with Lois towards London tomorrow," gushed Tanny sentimentally. "Good God!" said Lilly. "Why the dickens doesn't he walk by himself, without wanting a woman always there, to hold his hand." "Don't be so spiteful," said Tanny. "YOU see that you have a woman always there, to hold YOUR hand." "My hand doesn't need holding," snapped Lilly. "Doesn't it!
They rose, and went to look for an inn, and beer. Tanny still clung rather stickily to Jim's side. But it was a lovely day, the first of all the days of spring, with crocuses and wall-flowers in the cottage gardens, and white cocks crowing in the quiet hamlet. When they got back in the afternoon to the cottage, they found a telegram for Jim.
He wanted to say "Friday then?" "Yes, I'd rather you went Thursday," repeated Lilly. "But Rawdon !" broke in Tanny, who was suffering. She stopped, however. "We can walk across country with you some way if you like," said Lilly to Jim. It was a sort of compromise. "Fine!" said Jim. "We'll do that, then." It was lovely sunshine, and they wandered through the woods.
"Nice of you to have me." "Oh, we're awfully pleased." Jim dropped his knapsack on the broad sofa. "I've brought some food," he said. "Have you! That's sensible of you. We can't get a great deal here, except just at week-ends," said Tanny. Jim fished out a pound of sausages and a pot of fish paste. "How lovely the sausages," said Tanny.
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