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Bruce settled himself down comfortably, blew a ring of smoke, and then began slowly: 'I never dreamt, Edith 'Oh, Bruce, are you going to tell me everything you never dreamt? We shall take weeks getting to the point. 'Don't be absurd. I'll get to the point at once then. Look here; I think we ought to give a dinner for Madame Frabelle! 'Oh, is that all? Of course!
Madame Frabelle had received them together in Edith's place. On her return Madame Frabelle was full of the stranger. She had, it seemed been dressed in bright violet, and did nothing but laugh. Whether it was that everything amused her, or merely that laughter was the only mode she knew of expressing all her sentiments, impressions and feelings, Madame Frabelle was not quite sure.
I've been wondering that you didn't wish to do it long before now. 'Have you? I'll tell you why. Thinking Madame Frabelle was a pal, er a friend of the Conroys, it stood to reason, don't you see, that she knew everyone in London; or could, if she liked everyone worth knowing, I mean. Under these circumstances there was no point in well in showing off our friends to her.
'What peculiar feeling are we talking about? 'I said, which peculiar feeling did Mr. Frabelle have? 'What are you trying to get at, Edith? He looked at her suspiciously. Edith sighed. 'Was it the heaviness in the feet, or the lightness in the head, or was it the twitching of the eyelid which Mr. Frabelle used to suffer from? 'Oh, ah! Yes, I see what you mean.
Indeed, she had begun at once laying down the law in a musical voice but with a determined manner that gave those who knew her to understand only too well that she intended to go steadily on, and certainly not to stop to breathe before the ices. Sir Tito Landi, fixing his eyeglass in his bright blue eye, took in Madame Frabelle in one long look, and smiled at her sympathetically.
He's a generous man, because he has a sense of duty and of the claims of others. But he has the effect on me 'Go on, Eglantine. 'Frankly, he chills me, said Madame Frabelle. 'When I went to see him with Edith, I felt more tired after a quarter of an hour's talk with him than I would She glanced at Bruce.
Women were grateful to her, and in return admitted that she was pretty, unaffected and charming. Today she was dressed very simply in dark blue and might have passed for Archie's elder sister. 'It isn't anything. It wasn't my fault. It was her fault. Madame Frabelle said she would teach me to take away her mandolin and use it for a cricket bat. She needn't teach me; I know already.
'I'm sure you have a wonderful memory still, where I'm sitting is not the stern. There was a somewhat sulky silence. They admired the scenery of the river. Madame Frabelle said she loved the distant glimpses of the grey old palace of the Tudors, and asked him if he could imagine what it was like when it was gay all day with the clanking of steel and prancing horses and things.
'It is simply this, said the other lady, calmly continuing her knitting.... 'Very often when one's living with a person, one doesn't notice little things a comparative stranger would observe. Is that not so? 'What have you observed? What's it about? 'It is about your husband, said Madame Frabelle. 'What! Bruce? asked Edith. 'Naturally, replied Madame Frabelle dryly.
Bruce was furious, but nothing could be done, and the journey back to town was taken with Madame Frabelle very nearly pushed on to his knee by a rude young man who practically sat on hers, smoking a bad cigarette in her face. They tacitly agreed to say nothing about this, and got home in time for dinner, declaring the day to have been a great success. Bruce had really enjoyed it.
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