11/13 Well, wait till you've got to be a bit chummy with Birching. I think you'll suit each other. Let him see that you do really know something about architecture--there'll be plenty of chances." Hilliard, still musing, repeated with mechanical emphasis: "Yes, it would be worth while." Then Narramore called to Birching, and the talk became general again. Narramore, though it was his first visit to the city, declined to see anything which demanded exertion, and the necessity for quenching his thirst recurred with great frequency. Early in the afternoon he proposed that they should leave Paris that very evening. |