Barbary Shore
“McLeod got out of his chair, stepped carefully over Lannie’s legs, and sat down beside me on the bed. The hair at his temple was moist, and in a reaction he was incapable of controlling, his spectacles had fogged and he was obliged to remove them and wipe the lens.
Hollingsworth yawned again. “I wonder if it would be permissible to excuse myself for several minutes?” he inquired, and when there was no answer, he stood up, buttoned his jacket, nodded formally to each of us and stepped out of the room.
Lannie and McLeod were absorbed in regarding their legs. McLeod looked up. “Now that your boy friend is listening outside,” he murmured, “I suppose it’s time for you to begin.”
Lannie trembled. With a nonchalance she bore poorly, she turned slowly to survey the cold lines of the room. And when she spoke it was with an utter disregard of sequence so that one might have thought she had not been present during the last half-hour. “Your wife told me this room was open,” she said to McLeod, he...r eyes raising at last to gaze into his, “and that I could have it for a song, and I told her my pocketbook sings a dreary dirge.”MoreLess
Hollingsworth yawned again. “I wonder if it would be permissible to excuse myself for several minutes?” he inquired, and when there was no answer, he stood up, buttoned his jacket, nodded formally to each of us and stepped out of the room.
Lannie and McLeod were absorbed in regarding their legs. McLeod looked up. “Now that your boy friend is listening outside,” he murmured, “I suppose it’s time for you to begin.”
Lannie trembled. With a nonchalance she bore poorly, she turned slowly to survey the cold lines of the room. And when she spoke it was with an utter disregard of sequence so that one might have thought she had not been present during the last half-hour. “Your wife told me this room was open,” she said to McLeod, he...r eyes raising at last to gaze into his, “and that I could have it for a song, and I told her my pocketbook sings a dreary dirge.”MoreLess
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