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Miss Van Vluyck turned back through the volume, peering short-sightedly up and down the pages, till she came to a stop and remained motionless, like a dog on a point. "Well, have you found it?" Mrs. Ballinger enquired, after a considerable delay. "Yes. I've found it," said Miss Van Vluyck in a queer voice. Mrs.
"I suppose she flattered him," Miss Van Vluyck summed up "or else it's the way she does her hair." The dimensions of Miss Van Vluyck's dining-room having restricted the membership of the club to six, the non-conductiveness of one member was a serious obstacle to the exchange of ideas, and some wonder had already been expressed that Mrs.
Leveret interjected, seeming to herself to remember that she had either taken it or read it in the winter before. "Of course," Mrs. Roby admitted, "the difficulty is that one must give up so much time to it. It's very long." "I can't imagine," said Miss Van Vluyck tartly, "grudging the time given to such a subject." "And deep in places," Mrs. "I never skip," said Mrs. Plinth dogmatically.
Roby alone had abstained from profiting by the opportunity; but it was now openly recognised that, as a member of the Lunch Club, Mrs. Roby was a failure. "It all comes," as Miss Van Vluyck put it, "of accepting a woman on a man's estimation." Mrs.
Miss Van Vluyck turned back through the volume, peering short-sightedly up and down the pages, till she came to a stop and remained motionless, like a dog on a point. "Well, have you found it?" Mrs. Ballinger enquired after a considerable delay. "Yes. I've found it," said Miss Van Vluyck in a queer voice. Mrs.
Ballinger, with a perfunctory hand, rearranged the skilfully grouped literature at which her distinguished guest had not so much as glanced; then Miss Van Vluyck tartly pronounced: "Well, I can't say that I consider Osric Dane's departure a great loss." This confession crystallised the resentment of the other members, and Mrs. Leveret exclaimed: "I do believe she came on purpose to be nasty!"
And she took a second lump of sugar. The sting that this remark was vaguely felt to conceal was almost neutralised by the satisfaction of being addressed in such technical language. "Ah, the cerebellum," said Miss Van Vluyck complacently. "The Club took a course in psychology last winter." "Which psychology?" asked Osric Dane.
"Why," said that lady, glancing in turn at the other members, "as a community I hope it is not too much to say that we stand for culture." "For art " Miss Glyde interjected. "For art and literature," Mrs. Ballinger emended. "And for sociology, I trust," snapped Miss Van Vluyck. "We have a standard," said Mrs. Plinth, feeling herself suddenly secure on the vast expanse of a generalisation; and Mrs.
Miss Van Vluyck closed the Encyclopaedia and proceeded to button herself into her jacket "My time is really too valuable " she began. "I fancy we are all of one mind," said Mrs. Ballinger, looking searchingly at Mrs. Leveret, who looked at the others. "I always deprecate anything like a scandal " Mrs. Plinth continued. "She has been the cause of one to-day!" exclaimed Miss Glyde. Mrs.
Plinth stood up and gathered her expensive furs about her monumental form. "I have no wish to criticise," she said; "but unless the Lunch Club can protect its members against the recurrence of such such unbecoming scenes, I for one " "Oh, so do I!" agreed Miss Glyde, rising also. Miss Van Vluyck closed the Encyclopaedia and proceeded to button herself into her jacket.
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