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At two, on that day, Colfax's big blue touring car would come speeding up to the entrance of the apartment house and Eugene's valet would carry down his bags, golf sticks, tennis racket and the various paraphernalia that go with a week-end's entertainment, and off the car would roll.
Then came Jerry home from a week-end's trip and I forgot everything else. I knew from the minute his eyes looked into mine that whatever I had been before, I was now certainly no mere "Oh, some friend of Helen's." Whereupon he began at once to do the "cultivating." And just here, perversely enough, I grew indifferent. Or was it only feigned not consciously, but unconsciously?
After a comfortable week-end's rest, I left Lao-kai in the early morning, helped on my journey by those courtesies that so often in strange lands convince one that "less than kin more than kind" quite understates the truth. An Italian on his way down the river wired the landlord of the best inn in Yunnan-fu of my coming, that I might be properly met.
You're too theoretical to-night for a place of traditions. We'll shelve our little cabaret till some hour when genius burns, and instead I'll plunge you straight into common frivolity, as though you were some Cockney tourist getting his week-end's worth! Have you ever heard of the Bal Tabarin?" "Never. And I would much much rather " "No, you wouldn't! I have spoken. Come along!"
The more civilized a people, the more perfect their ability to communicate, especially under difficulties and in emergencies." As usual, the observation burst harmlessly over the heads of most of the students in the class, who were preoccupied with more immediate things with the evening's movies and the week-end's dance. But upon two young men in the class, it made a powerful impression.
Quite recently, when the young couple came in to New York for a week-end's shopping rendered necessary by the establishment of day and night nurseries they entertained Steingall and Clancy at dinner in the Biltmore. Naturally, at one stage of a pleasant meal, the talk turned on those eventful months, October and November, 1913. As usual, Clancy waxed sarcastic at his chief's expense.
"I have been away for a week-end's golf," Hebblethwaite explained, as they took their places at the table. "There comes a time when figures pall, and snapping away in debate seems to stick in one's throat. I telephoned directly I got your note. Fortunately, I wasn't doing anything this evening. We won't play about.
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