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As she closed the purse at the imminent risk of wrenching off its fastenings she looked at me severely and pursed up her lips. "You're a very plausible young man," she remarked. "What makes you say that?" I asked. "Philandering about museums," she continued, "with handsome young ladies on the pretence of work. Work, indeed! Oh, I heard her telling her father about it.
"No more of this man's philandering after you," he retorted. "I don't understand you," Beth gasped. "Oh, you're mighty innocent," he sneered. "You'll be telling me next that he comes to see me, lends me books, walks up and down by the hour together with me, brings me fruit and flowers! You think I'm blind, I suppose!
His bride is medicine." And he disliked to see what he called PHILANDERING going on in his hospital. It may have been on that account that I avoided speaking much of Hilda Wade thenceforth before him. He looked in casually next day to see the patient. "She will die," he said, with perfect assurance, as we passed down the ward together. "Operation has taken too much out of her."
But at this moment the tender scene was abruptly ended by the shrill, strident tones of La Zandunga's voice. "So I have caught you, shameless girl, philandering again with this rascally red-coat. May he die in a dog-kennel! Here, in my very house! But, I promise you, it is for the last time. Hola! Benito!
"Not this evening," she replied; "I have been to a meeting." "A meeting!" I repeated; "that sounds interesting!" "I doubt whether you would have found it so," she answered dryly. Her manner, without being absolutely repellent, was far from encouraging. I found myself in the embarrassing position of having nothing left to say. I gave up all attempt at conversational philandering.
He was a good-looking figure of a man, too, in his brown duck working clothes, and I did not wonder Marcia Wilbraham had taken a fancy to him. Dudley would probably be blazing if he caught her philandering with his superintendent, but it was no business of mine. And anyhow, Macartney had my blessing since it could not be he to whom Paulette Brown had meant to speak the night before.
"I'm not sorry for it, and I think just as you do, Mr. Putney." "Well, I'm glad you do," said Putney, as if it were a favor. When he reached home, his wife asked, "Where in the world have you been, Ralph?" "Oh, just philandering round in the dark a little with Adeline Northwick." "Ralph, what do you mean?"
He was often wrong; but never cowardly, never philandering, never vacillating. "I am anti-everything," as he said humorously of himself. And so he was.
The fact is my uncle at seventy-two is philandering with a lady-housekeeper he set up a year ago. She seems to be bent on netting him, and my father thinks she'll do it. If she does, my uncle will probably find himself with an heir of his own. Anyway the value of my prospects is enormously less than it was. All the neighbours are perfectly aware of what is going on.
Don't get to lying about in easy-chairs and reading novels; don't get to singing duets and philandering about with the girls. May I never, if I'd not rather find a brandy-flask in your pocket than Tennyson's poems!
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