[Jacob’s Room by Virginia Woolf]@TWC D-Link bookJacob’s Room CHAPTER SIX 17/22
Then--"Well, poor chap, we mustn't sit staring. What a go! Did you hear what she said? By God, he looks a fool! Didn't come up to the scratch, I suppose.
All the mustard on the tablecloth. The waiters laughing." Jacob observed Florinda.
In her face there seemed to him something horribly brainless--as she sat staring. Out she swept, the black woman with the dancing feather in her hat. Yet she had to go somewhere.
The night is not a tumultuous black ocean in which you sink or sail as a star.
As a matter of fact it was a wet November night.
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