”
The dinner came to an end at last, and the whiskered waiter presented his bill
and evacuated the apartment and closed the door behind him with an almost
ostentatious discretion. ‘Do you think I do not know? What am I doing here, do you think?’
‘That’s just exactly what I’ve been asking myself,’ he returned. Ann Veronica was much impressed by a mighty trying on and altering and
fussing about Alice’s “things”—Alice was being re-costumed from garret to
cellar, with a walking-dress and walking-boots to measure, and a bride’s costume
of the most ravishing description, and stockings and such like beyond the dreams
of avarice—and a constant and increasing dripping into the house of irrelevant
remarkable objects, such as—
Real lace bedspread;
Gilt travelling clock;
Ornamental pewter plaque;
Salad bowl (silver mounted) and servers;
Madgett’s “English Poets” (twelve volumes), bound purple morocco;
Etc. “I propose,” Sir John said, “that we pay for our dinner—which we haven’t had—
tip the garçon a sovereign, and take a cab to the Ritz. "And now, having got rid of the minor obstacles," said Jonathan, "I'll submit a
plan for the removal of the main difficulty. “You were talking to that fellow Ramage to-day—in the Avenue.
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