CHAPTER XVI Ah cum began to worry. Evidently her foresight has saved me a funeral. But I said I wouldn't drive a hard bargain with you, and I won't. Why do you think I’m indulging in all this very un-English love talk?’ ‘But you are idiot, Gérard. At any moment, Cathy Beck could arrive home and see them, then he would be eating dinner with 6 them, almost whether he liked it or not. The intoxicating sense of novelty had given place to a more business-like mood. He had said so. Miss Stanley walked round the garden thinking, and presently house and garden reverberated to Ann Veronica’s slamming of the front door. This service rendered, without waiting for any farther order, she withdrew. He was in front of one of the more imposing of the cafés chantants—opposite, illuminated with a whole row of lights, was the wonderful poster which had helped to make ‘Alcide’ famous. They trudged and talked, and Manning struggled, as he said, to “get the hang of it all. In the old days he had been something of an athlete—a runner, an oarsman, and a crack at tennis. Hope you ate light before you got here. But all of that was forgotten. We have seen great and sober-minded men come to this unholy city, and become degenerates.
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