[The Common Law by Robert W. Chambers]@TWC D-Link bookThe Common Law CHAPTER III 21/24
Then, looking up with enchanting audacity: "I really don't know, Mr.Neville.Some day when I'm lonely--and if Louis is at home and Kelly is out--you and I might spend an evening together on a moonlit lake and see how much of a human being Louis can be." She laughed, watching him under the dark lashes, charming mouth mocking him in every curve. "Do you think you're likely to be lonely to-night ?" he asked, surprised at the slight acceleration of his pulses. "No, I don't.
Besides, you'd be only the great god Kelly to me this evening.
Besides that I'm going to dinner with Querida, and afterward we're going to see the 'Joy of the Town' at the Folly Theatre." "I didn't know," he said, curtly.
For a few moments he sat there, looking interestedly at a familiar door-knob.
Then rising: "Do you feel all right for posing ?" "Yes." "Alors--" "Allons, mon dieu!" she laughed. Work began.
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