Scandal At High Chimneys
“NIGHT-LIFE: THE ALHAMBRA INTO THE DARK.
But it was light now, with the lines of misty gas-lamps stretching down towards the Regent’s Quadrant and beyond to Leicester Square, as a hansom took Clive to a rendezvous that might mean everything or nothing.
He was late. Not too late, he hoped, but late all the same.
“No, sir,” the liveried hall-porter at Mivart’s had assured him for the sixth time. “Miss Kate Damon has not yet returned.”
Nearly all theatrical performances commenced at a quarter to ei...ght, or with a curtain-raiser which began at that time. The customary dinner-hour was at seven; but it was wiser to dine far earlier if you meant to be punctual.
Clive, taking dinner at Mivart’s after hastily donning evening-clothes, could no more hurry the waiters than he could hurry the seven courses. He declined three of the courses. He declined four different wines so as to keep his head. But the steam of cooking rose, in the stately dining-room with the looped curtains of blue and canary silk.MoreLess
But it was light now, with the lines of misty gas-lamps stretching down towards the Regent’s Quadrant and beyond to Leicester Square, as a hansom took Clive to a rendezvous that might mean everything or nothing.
He was late. Not too late, he hoped, but late all the same.
“No, sir,” the liveried hall-porter at Mivart’s had assured him for the sixth time. “Miss Kate Damon has not yet returned.”
Nearly all theatrical performances commenced at a quarter to ei...ght, or with a curtain-raiser which began at that time. The customary dinner-hour was at seven; but it was wiser to dine far earlier if you meant to be punctual.
Clive, taking dinner at Mivart’s after hastily donning evening-clothes, could no more hurry the waiters than he could hurry the seven courses. He declined three of the courses. He declined four different wines so as to keep his head. But the steam of cooking rose, in the stately dining-room with the looped curtains of blue and canary silk.MoreLess
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