[The Tempting of Tavernake by E. Phillips Oppenheim]@TWC D-Link bookThe Tempting of Tavernake CHAPTER II 4/31
Do you prefer a small restaurant or a corner in a big one? There is music at Frascati's but there are not so many people in the smaller ones." She turned half around upon the pavement and looked at him steadfastly. His personality was at last beginning to interest her.
His square jaw and measured speech were indices of a character at least unusual.
She recognized certain invincible qualities under an exterior absolutely commonplace. "Are you as persistent about everything in life ?" she asked him. "Why not ?" he replied.
"I try always to be consistent." "What is your name ?" "Leonard Tavernake," he answered, promptly. "Are you well off--I mean moderately well off ?" "I have a quite sufficient income." "Have you any one dependent upon you ?" "Not a soul," he declared.
"I am my own master in every sense of the word." She laughed in an odd sort of way. "Then you shall pay for your persistence," she said,--"I mean that I may as well rob you of a sovereign as the restaurant people." "You must tell me now where you would like to go to," he insisted.
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