My nerves were in rags. There will be long stretches of idleness, heat, and enervation; and always the odour of drying coconut. In an instant, she turned on him. How does one get work? She walked along the Strand and across Trafalgar Square, and by the Haymarket to Piccadilly, and so through dignified squares and palatial alleys to Oxford Street; and her mind was divided between a speculative treatment of employment on the one hand, and breezes—zephyr breezes—of the keenest appreciation for London, on the other. ’ ‘Yes, but in fact you’ve offered me far more entertainment than any French spy could have done. That world of fine printed cambrics and escorted maidens, of delicate secondary meanings and refined allusiveness, presented itself to her imagination with the brightness of a lost paradise, as indeed for many women it is a lost paradise. It was an overcast day, albeit not foggy, and the electric light shades glowed warmly, and an Italian waiter with insufficient English took Ramage’s orders, and waited with an appearance of affection. “You are in luck, Miss Pellissier,” he declared. She tugged at my coat and said, ‘I know of the blue-eyed maid. He drew her to him with his hands upon her waist. ‘She means thanks to you, General,’ Gerald translated automatically, forgetful of his old commander’s fiery temper.
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