[The Double Traitor by E. Phillips Oppenheim]@TWC D-Link bookThe Double Traitor CHAPTER XIII 3/19
Two pences they had persuaded me to play, too, and it was the rubber game.
Afterwards he said to me: 'You seem annoyed'; and I replied 'I am annoyed,' and I am.
I come in here to drink coffee and cool myself. Presently I will cut into another rubber, where that young man is not. Perhaps our friend Mrs.Benedek will be here.
You and I and Mrs.Benedek, but not, if we can help it, the lady who smokes the small black cigars. She is very amiable, but I cannot attend to the game while she sits there opposite to me.
She fascinates me.
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