[The Great Impersonation by E. Phillips Oppenheim]@TWC D-Link bookThe Great Impersonation CHAPTER XXII 15/19
She will not think of going to bed at this time of night." Seaman nodded. "Leave it to me," he directed.
"You go out and play the host." Dominey played the host first and then the husband.
Rosamund welcomed him with a little cry of pleasure. "I have been enjoying myself so much, Everard!" she exclaimed. "Everybody has been so kind, and Mr.Mangan has taught me a new Patience." "And now, I think," Doctor Harrison intervened a little gruffly, "it's time to knock off for the evening." She turned very sweetly to Everard. "Will you take me upstairs ?" she begged.
"I have been hoping so much that you would come before Doctor Harrison sent me off." "I should have been very disappointed if I had been too late," Dominey assured her.
"Now say good night to everybody." "Why, you talk to me as though I were a child," she laughed.
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