natural was his manner, that Monica, after the first moment of consternation, tried to forget that there was anything irregular in her presence here under these circumstances. As regards social propriety, a flat differs in many respects from a house. In an ordinary drawing-room, it could scarcely have mattered if Bevis entertained her for a short space until his sisters’ arrival; but in this little set of rooms it was doubtfully permissible for her to sit tete-a-tete with a young man, under any excuse. And the fact of his opening the front door himself seemed to suggest that not even a servant was in the flat. A tremor grew upon her as she talked, due in part to the consciousness that she was glad to be thus alone with Bevis.
‘A place like this must seem to you to be very unhomelike,’ he was saying, as he lounged on a low chair not very far from Miehet Moncler Takit Suomi her. ‘The girls didn’t like it at all at first. I suppose it’s a retrograde step in civilization. Servants are decidedly of that opinion; we have a great difficulty in Manchester City Women Jersey getting them to stay here. The reason seems to me that they miss the congenial gossip of the area door. At this moment we are without a domestic. I found she compensated Parajumpers Herr Gobi Vinterjacka herself for disadvantages by stealing my tobacco and cigars. She went to work with such a lack of discretion — abstracting half a pound Vancouver Canucks Pelipaidat of honeydew at a time — that I couldn’t find any sympathy for her. Moreover, when charged with the delinquency, she became abusive, so very abusive that we were obliged to insist upon her Chelsea Quilted Takki Suomi immediate departure.’
‘Do you think she smoked?’ asked Monica laughingly.
‘We have debated that point France Kid Jerseys with much interest. She was a person of advanced ideas, as you see; practically a communist. But I doubt whether honeydew had any charms for her personally. It seems more probable that some milkman, or baker’s assistant, or even metropolitan policeman, benefited by her communism.’
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