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Updated: July 3, 2025
The duffer is going to join the tennis-club he was at the Pooles' dance. I was simply flabbergasted. He's a duffer."
The little German garden was disappearing from Miriam's eyes.... It was cruel, cruel that she was not going to wear her blouses at home, at the tennis-club... with Harriett.... It was all beginning again, after all the spring and tennis and presently boating things were going on... the smash had not come... why had she not stayed... just one more spring?... how silly and hurried she had been, and there at home in the garden lilac was quietly coming out and syringa and guelder roses and May and laburnum and... everything... and she had run away, proud of herself, despising them all, and had turned herself into Miss Henderson,... and no one would ever know who she was.... Perhaps the blouses would make a difference it must be extraordinary to have blouses.... Slommucky... untidy and slommucky Lilla's mother had called them... and perhaps they would not fit her....
The tennis-club would go on, but she would not be there. It would begin in May. Again there would be a white twinkling figure coming quickly along the pathway between the rows of holly-hocks every Saturday afternoon. Why had he come to tea every Sunday never missing a single Sunday all the winter? Why did he say, "Play 'Abide with me," "Play 'Abide with me'" yesterday, if he didn't care?
With steady hands Miriam turned the closely-written sheets reading a phrase here and there... "regularly in the seat behind us at All Saints' for months saw her with the Pooles at a concert at the Assembly Rooms and made up his mind then the moment he saw her joined the tennis-club they won the double handicap a beautiful Slazenger racquet only just over sixteen for years of course Mother says it's just a little foolish nonsense but I am not sure that she really thinks so Gerald took me into his confidence made a solemn call admirably suited to each other rather a long melancholy good-looking face they look such a contrast the big Canadian Railway not exactly a clerk something rather above that, to do with making drafts of things and so on.
At the musical evenings, organised by Eve as a winter set-off to the tennis-club, she had both played and sung, hoping each time afresh to be able to reproduce the effects which came so easily when she was alone or only with Eve. But she could not discover the secret of getting rid of her nervousness.
Ian and Milly went out and walked in the Parks. The tennis-club lawns were almost deserted, but they met a few acquaintances taking their constitutional, like themselves, and an exchange of ordinary remarks with people who took her normality for granted, helped Milly to believe in it herself.
On August 3, 1914, eleven months before my solemn admission into Devonport Dockyard, I was a young schoolboy on my holidays, playing tennis in a set of mixed doubles. About five o'clock a paper-boy entered the tennis-club grounds with the Evening News. My male opponent, although he was serving, stopped his game for a minute and bought a paper.
No one at the tennis-club had seen that. He had good taste. No one else had been to Madame Schumann's Farewell... sitting at the piano with her curtains of hair and her dreamy smile... and the Philharmonic Concerts.
We are all looking forward to it the tennis-club your name as a holiday member the American tournament in August Harry was the youngest lady member like you of course Harry could not let you come without knowing find somebody travelling through Fraulein Pfaff expect to see you looking like a flour-sack with a string tied round its waist all the dwarf roses in bloom hardly any strawberries we shall see you soon everybody sends."
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