"If you could spare me a few moments later, I should be glad." She rose at once, thrusting her notes and gold into the satchel which she was carrying, and stood by his side.

She was very elegantly dressed in black and white, but she was pale, and, watching her with a new intentness, he discovered faint violet lines under her eyes, as though she had been sleeping ill.
"I am rather glad you came," she said.

"I was having an abominable run of bad luck, and yet I hated to give up my seat without an excuse.

What did you want, Henry ?" "I should like," he explained, "to talk to you for a quarter of an hour.
This place is rather crowded and it is getting on my nerves.

We seem to live here, night and day.