12/17 He was not impatient with her, but he was impatient of the fact that she could not appreciate. Now the fat was in the fire again. Under other circumstances he would have said that it was much more trouble than it was worth to keep in the good graces of a girl, but under the present circumstances--well, his heart had sunk down about a foot out of place, and he had a sort of faint feeling in the region of his stomach. |