[Jaffery by William J. Locke]@TWC D-Link bookJaffery CHAPTER IX 6/27
I have the same horrible apprehension of it--always have--as one has before a visit to the dentist, when you know he's going to drill hell into you." "Why do you work in such a depressing room ?" I asked.
"If I were shut up alone in it, I would stick my nose in the air and howl like a dog." "Oh, the room's all right," said he.
Then he looked away absently and murmured as if to himself, "It isn't the room." "Then what is it ?" I persisted. He turned with a dreary sort of smile.
"It's the born butterfly being condemned to do the work of the busy bee." A short while afterwards we saw them drive off and watched the car disappear round the bend of the drive. "Well, my dear," said I, "thank goodness I'm not a man of genius." "Amen!" said Barbara, fervently. As soon as they had settled down in their flat, Adrian began to work again, in the same unremitting fashion.
The only concession he made to consideration of health was to go to bed immediately on his return from dinner-parties and theatres instead of spending three or four hours in his study.
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