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Updated: May 31, 2025
She rehearsed in her ordinary street clothes, with her hat on, and as often as not, with a wrist-bag in one hand. She neither danced, sang, nor acted. But she had her part letter perfect before any of the other principals.
"You've only got that wrist-bag with you?" "Yes," said Sonia. "I have my money and my handkerchief in it." And she held it out to him. Guerchard's keen eyes darted into it; and he muttered, "No point in looking in that. I don't suppose any one would have had the audacity " and he stopped.
In order to free her hands to take the key from her wrist-bag, she set her cloak on the back of a couch. It slipped off it, and fell to the ground at the feet of the Duke, who had not returned to his place beside Germaine.
I suppose I mustn't thank you," she went on, "because you say it isn't anything you're doing for me. But it is a great thing for me greater than I could tell you. And I won't fail. You needn't be afraid." He found his pocketbook and counted out a hundred and twenty dollars, which he handed over to her. She folded it and put it away in her wrist-bag.
And opening her little wrist-bag, she took out of it two spare handkerchiefs, and tied them, with tremulous hands, round the wrist he held out to her, a wrist brown and spare and powerful, like the rest of him. "Now have you got anything you could tie round the arm, above the wound and then twist the knot?" She thought. "My veil!" She slipped it off in a moment, a long motor veil of stout make.
Lucilla having discovered the man's hat for him, restored to the woman the wrist-bag and pocket-handkerchief and parcel she would have left behind her, and watched the pair from the room, yawned aloud as she piled the soiled teacups, plates, and saucers on the little brown Japanese tray, and carried them to that screened-off angle of the room where china was washed and bread and butter cut all the day long.
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