‘Perhaps if you try—try hard.’
‘But—look here, I don’t care what you say—what business had you to make away with my wife?’
‘Now you’re beginning all over again.’
‘Make away with my wife, smash up everything between me and my mother——’
‘Oh, oh——’ interrupted Laura, stopping up her ears, and bowing her head before the storm.
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It was ten more minutes before she got him out of his rooms and into a taxi.
‘We’ve lost twenty minutes,’ she said, looking at her watch. ‘You’ve lost twenty kisses you might have had——’
‘For God’s sake don’t rag me!’ cried Jocelyn, gripping her by the arm and bundling her into the taxi.
‘But what,’ asked Laura, who had tumbled in a heap on the seat, yet who didn’t mind being thrown in because she knew she deserved worse than that, ‘what else can one do with a creature like you?’