“Who did you live with before the
Becks? I hear things. Stanley. He had not been successful as the world counted success; the fat
bank-account, the filled waiting room of which he had once dreamed, had never
materialized except in the smoke of his evening pipe. ”
Horace, the manservant, transformed now into the semblance of a correctly
garbed waiter, threw open the door. Gerald, whose French was adequate from his military service abroad, was able
to respond suitably to such remarks as the ladies addressed to him, but was less
exercised by their fashionable dress than their decidedly careworn appearance. Footman or some such. "
"What has he done?"
"He has just naturally peeved his Uncle Sam. The manager tells me that you
are an American. His
little doll. Then he sensed the trap. There were two school-mistresses, one of whom—Miss Klegg—might have
been a first cousin to Miss Miniver, she had so many Miniver traits; there was a
preoccupied girl whose name Ann Veronica never learned, but who worked
remarkably well; and Miss Garvice, who began by attracting her very greatly—
she moved so beautifully—and ended by giving her the impression that moving
beautifully was the beginning and end of her being. ‘Fiddle, Gerald. The girl
who had just left the room was as great a mystery to him now as on the
afternoon when he had met her in Piccadilly and taken her to tea. Over here men drink because they are lonely; and when they drink too hard
and too long, they wind up on the beach.
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