The clerk at the Raffles Hotel had accorded her but scant interest. Keep a sharp look out, Austin, and see that we lose no one else. I’m glad you could come. In this way (he informed Spurlock) he kept posted on what was going on in the strictly commercial world. “You did your best to kill me,” he said. “You mean to tell me” he said, “that you have a lover? While I have been keeping you! Yes—keeping you!” This view of life he hurled at her as if it were an offensive missile. “You are coming in, aren’t you, Sydney?” “If I may,” he answered. The smell that emanated from the opening was abominable. The ceiling had, in many places, given way; the laths had been removed; and, where any plaster remained, it was either mapped and blistered with damps, or festooned with dusty cobwebs. “Annabel,” she said, “you are my sister, or I would bid you take the flowers if you care for them, and leave the room. ’ ‘Yes, I’m sorry about that,’ Gerald uttered in a rueful tone. Run along while I rig up and get the part in my hair straight. Could you come to tea at my rooms one afternoon, or would you dine with me somewhere, and do a theatre? We could have a private room, of course, if you do not wish to be seen about London, and a box at the theatre.
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