Monopolized the boats; ignored the dinner-
hour.... Sometimes I think that even the thoughtless are thoughtful in
their own way and use us, if we happen to have lands and substance, purely
as practical conveniences. I've been almost glad to think that I possess
none myself."
"Don't stay here and talk like that. This is one of my blue days."
"I wish I had brought a novelette. Sure you don't want to hear a little
more about the Countess of Castlemaine and the rascalities of the Navy
Office?"
"No; some other time, when I feel a bit more robust. It isn't every day
that the mind can digest such a period with comfort."
"Are we two old fogies beginning to wear on each other?"
"I hope not. But when you go down, stop for Medora a minute and see if she
hasn't got something to say."
Medora--when he finally got down stairs--had.
She laid some knitting on the drawing-room table and came out into the
hall.
"No reading this afternoon, I judge. What I heard, or seemed to hear, was a
broken flow of talk."
"No reading. Restless."
"So I was afraid. I'd rather have one good steady voice purring along for
him, and then I know he's all right.
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