[The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes]@TWC D-Link bookThe Lodger CHAPTER VIII 18/20
"Anyway I can certainly get leave to take a friend there." He looked meaningly at Daisy, and Daisy looked eagerly at him. But would Ellen ever let her go out by herself with Mr.Chandler? Ellen was so prim, so--so irritatingly proper.
But what was this father was saying? "D'you really mean that, Joe ?" "Yes, of course I do!" "Well, then, look here! If it isn't asking too much of a favour, I should like to go along there with you very much one day.
I don't want to wait till The Avenger's caught"-- Bunting smiled broadly. "I'd be quite content as it is with what there is in that museum o' yours.
Ellen, there,"-- he looked across at his wife--"don't agree with me about such things.
Yet I don't think I'm a bloodthirsty man! But I'm just terribly interested in all that sort of thing--always have been.
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