5/17 When you've had enough of this kind of thing we can strike off into the quiet streets. If you were a man, which I'm glad you're not, I should say I was choking for a glass of beer.' 'Say it, and look for a place where you can quench your thirst.' 'It must be a place, then, where you can come in as well. You don't drink beer, of course, but we can get lemonade and that kind of thing. Glare of gas illumined it in the foreground; beyond, it dimmed all radiance like a thin fog. |