Tell Me My Fortune
“And it was not long before Oliver detached himself quite naturally from his conversation with Morley and drifted casually into the group comprising Caroline, Leslie and Reid.At first, Leslie thought he was seeking to rejoin his beloved, from whom he doubtless felt he had been separated long enough. But, after, a minute or two, it dawned upon her that it was to her he wished to talk.Caroline and Reid were getting on splendidly, in an exchange of gay and rapid cross-talk which kept things balance...d on that curious knife-edge between intimacy and remoteness, only to be maintained when the protagonists are both amusing and quick-witted.“Come and tell me how your parents are reacting to the new position, now they are getting used to it,” Oliver said to Leslie, and, skilfully extricating her from the position of conversational buffer-state in which she had found herself, he drew her over to one of the deep window-seats, and sat down there with her.As soon as they were established, however, in a reasonable degree of privacy, he seemed to forget his kind interest in her parents’ welfare, because, without pressing the enquiry further, he looked across the room at Reid and said,“So that’s the fellow who has cut you all out with Great-Aunt Tabitha.”“Oh, that isn’t quite how we feel about him, you know,”MoreLess
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