“Now you understand what I mean.”
“Yes, now I understand what you mean. And it is really a little like the woods, too,” she added. “Those iron acorns and leaves are the branches, and the stuffed eagles are the birds.”
He looked at the oak-branches and the eagles for some time, and then he said:
“Let us talk.”
“What are we doing now?”
“We are waiting for what is to be to eat.”
“I thought that that in itself was always sufficient entertainment for a man.”
“I like better to talk. I have not much time more to talk with you, vous savez.”
“We will talk,” she said, hastily. Her eyes wandered vaguely over the room seeking a subject for immediate discussion; all that she saw was the perpendicular cue of one of the billiard players.
“Watch!” she exclaimed. “He’s going to make an awfully difficult shot.”