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"I know," returned the young man, half-absently. "I am up against one of them, right now, and I don't know how to solve it." "Will it bear telling?" she asked, and he hoped that the sympathy in her tone was personal rather than conventional.
John polished off his "dringer," listening to the chaff, but his thoughts were with Desmond. He had an intuition that Desmond would have something to say to him. As soon as possible he returned to the Manor. There he found his room empty. John shut the door and sat down, looking about him half-absently.
His polite care not to embarrass her shut the door. "I mean, just now," she resumed, "while our seat's so shaky, you know." "Ah, yes," said he half-absently. She leant back in her chair and looked at him. "I think," she said, "you look as if you did care, about Mr. Blair or about something else. I wanted to tell you that I don't agree in the least with the criticisms on you."
The old-fashioned vestment seemed to go well with the young man's face.... Cally stood upon the bottom step of the House, and drew her hand along the rail. It had occurred to her to tell him that she would probably go away to live; but now she only said, half-absently: "I might think about it, and let you know later."
"You know, Larry," Christian said, half-absently twisting and arranging Dooley's little tan ears, in order to express, on Dooley's behalf, with them, various emotions, "it seems to me that all these political revolutions that you are so anxious to start, for the good of Ireland, are like putting the cart before the horse." "What do you mean?" asked Larry, eyeing her with undisguised surprise.
"Naturally," Blount agreed, then half-absently, and with his eyes still resting upon the merrymakers twirling like paired automatons in the distant assembly-room: "And my father how does he stand?" "The idea of your having to ask me how the senator stands in his own State!" exclaimed Gantry.
A telephone call to the Gales' produced no information as to the whereabouts of Azalea or the baby. Betty replied that she hadn't seen any one from Wistaria Porch that day, and was thinking of coming over to call. "Don't come just now," said Patty, half-absently, and then she hung up the receiver without further words. "Well, I think I'll have to call up Bill," she said, at last.
"If that be true, what chances there are for men with the gift of true leadership and a love of pure justice in their hearts!" she said half-absently; and he started forward and said: "I beg pardon?" She let the blue-gray eyes meet his and there was a passing shadow of disappointment in them. "I ought to beg yours. I'm afraid I was thinking aloud. But it is one of my dreams.
"This is our last spin together on the high plains, I suppose," he said. "Your mother has fixed upon to-morrow for our return to town, hasn't she?" Elinor confirmed it half-absently. She had been keyed up to face the inevitable in this drive with Ormsby, and she was afraid now that he was going to break her resolution by a dip into the commonplaces. "Are you glad or sorry?" he asked.
"He was lecturing me about how my father ought to run his business. He always does...." She replenished the dying fire with a soft lump, and poked it unskilfully, all but stabbing the life out of it. Canning, standing and staring half-absently into the soft glow, did not offer to relieve her of the poker. They knew each other very well by now.
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