” He stood looking at the preparations before them with an unusual preoccupation of manner, then roused himself to take her jacket, a little awkwardly, and hand it to the waiter who hung it in the corner of the room. She had decided that she would spend the next morning answering advertisements in the papers that abounded in the writing-room; and so, after half an hour’s perusal of back numbers of the Sketch in the drawingroom, she had gone to bed. One post-midnight meeting, she could stand it no longer. He was still flashily dressed, with much obvious jewellery and the shiniest of patent boots, but his general bearing and appearance had altered for the worse. You were wide the mark, physically; otherwise you had him pat. Their houses became a refuge of ill repute, the source of rumor and intrigue in the highest echelons of society. “You do not know what such a relation means. Sometimes a whole morning would pass without Spurlock uttering a word beyond the request for a drink of water. She followed the landlady half way up-stairs, and called up to Ann Veronica, “May I come up? It’s me! You know—Nettie Miniver!” She appeared before Ann Veronica could clearly recall who Nettie Miniver might be. ‘Though we might have done, if a certain addlepated clothhead hadn’t let her get away. No blowzy barmaids for him to-day: an American bar-keep to whom he could tell his troubles and receive the proper meed of sympathy. It was impossible to meet the motion bodily. “The plain common-sense of the case,” he said, “is that we can’t possibly be lovers in the ordinary sense.
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