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You mean we have nothing else to think of but you? She threw up her head at an angle which was particularly becoming, and showed the softness and whiteness of her throat in the collarless dress.
Oh, yes, he would. Take Jujubes.
All work and no play Claudia began to quote, when he interrupted her.
Give us your paw, Claud. I say, old girl, dont you go against me. I came to you at once; youve always been such a good chap, though you do scold me. With rough affection he put his arm round her and kissed her.[147] I said to myself, Old Claudia will stand by me. She isnt a conventional duffer like the others. Shell see Fays fascination, and, after all, a fellows only got one life to live, and why cant I do as I like? Ive heard you say things like that time and time again, and Gilberts contradicted you. I daresay Ive done a silly thing, but if I dont regret it, what is it to anyone else? Only dont you round on me. It makes me feel as if Id gone to my bath and there wasnt any water.
At lunchor, as Sir John would insist on everyone calling it, luncheonshe did not sit next to him or have an opportunity for any private conversation. She had to be content with a long look and a smile. The vicar and his wife always dined with them on Sunday, and there were two or three other people, quite uninteresting, but very chatty. Claudia wondered vaguely why uninteresting people generally are chatty.
Claudia looked at her. She was extraordinarily well preserved, even in the bright morning light. There were no lines to tell her age or mark character. But it was not a face that invited confidence, that would attract a child or make a precious miniature in any mans heart.
Lady Curreys eyebrows were of the fixture kind that cannot really be raised, only crumpled. She crumpled them now.
Verdictnot grown!
I read somewhere in something that friendship is a good foundation for marriage. What was the beastly quotation? Love is friendship set on fire. It impressed me, because Fay and I were awful good chums for a long time and we nevernever till we were married.
After they had both laughed over the childrens enterprise, they got to work. Claudia asked her opinion about an accompanist.
He looked at her with a curious expressionhalf wonderment, half tenderness.
Oh, Rhoda! dont be ridiculous. Besides, what does it matter what his grandfather was? Youre talking like Lady Currey now. And its so old-fashioned!
Claudia took him quite seriously, for happiness, just as sorrow, may temporarily obscure a sense of humour. I forbid you to say such things of yourself, she said, with an engaging air of motherliness. Youre awfully cleverawfully clever. Why, you are one of the best-read[60] and best-informed men in London. Suddenly she realized how often she had turned to him for information or advice. And she could never remember an occasion on which he had failed her, or an opinion that her critical faculty on reflection deemed unsound.
You are a very sweet and fascinating woman, he said suddenly, and I am sorry that we ever did anything so vulgar as to use your portrait for a book cover.... Good-bye.