s plate, smiling.
‘A most sensible question,’ said the hostess, with a laugh. ‘Why, indeed?’
‘But a difficult one to answer,’ remarked Everard, with his most restrained smile. ‘Possibly, Miss Nunn, narrow social opportunity has something to do with it. They must marry some one, and in the case of most men choice is seriously restricted.’
‘I should have thought,’ replied Rhoda, elevating her eyebrows, ‘that to live alone was the less of two evils.’
‘Undoubtedly. But vilareal Drakt men like these two we have been speaking of haven’t a very logical mind.’
Miss Barfoot changed the topic.
When, not long after, the ladies left him to Parajumers Heavy Jersey Barbara Dam meditate over his glass of wine, Everard curiously surveyed the room. Then his eyelids drooped, he smiled absently, and a calm sigh seemed to relieve his chest. The claret had no particular Moncler Daphne Suomi quality to Saudi Arabia Drakt recommend it, and in any case he would have drunk very little, for as regards the bottle his nature was abstemious.
‘It is as I expected,’ Miss Barfoot was saying to her friend in the drawing-room. ‘He has changed very noticeably.’
‘Mr. Barfoot isn’t quite the man your remarks had suggested to me,’ Rhoda replied.
‘I fancy he is no longer the man I knew. His Other Teams manners are wonderfully improved. He used to assert himself in rather alarming ways. His letter, to be sure, had the old tone, or something of it.’
‘I will go to the library for an hour,’ said Rhoda, who had not seated herself. ‘Mr. Barfoot won’t leave before ten, I suppose?’
‘I don’t Kanadanhanhi Skreslet Parka Suomi think there will be any private talk.’
‘Still, if you will let me —’
So, when Everard appeared, he found his cousin alone.
‘What are you going to do?’ she asked of him good-naturedly.
‘To do? You mean, how do I propose to employ myself? I have nothing whatever in view, beyond enjoying life.’
‘At your age?’
‘So young? Dame Parajumpers Dodie Vest Or so old? Which?’
‘So young, of course. You deliberately intend to waste your life?’
‘To enjoy it, I said. I am |