"Me workin' for Norman himself! Gee!" said Tommy.
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A few hours later the bridal couple turned up at the Madagascar. Miriam was beautiful and beautifully dressed, but feeling sure of her position now, she made no attempt to curb her arrogance. She believed that she owned the Madagascar and acted accordingly. The hotel servants cringed—and detested her. Bobo was correspondingly depressed and anxious-looking.
Their unannounced arrival hardly surprised Jack. He was in expectation of a call for funds.
Miriam immediately demanded to be shown through the suite. "So that I can choose which rooms I will take."
Jack, amused by the comedy, accompanied her and Bobo on the tour of inspection. Jack's room, the next room but one to the Dutch room, seemed to please her most. Perhaps it was because she knew it was Jack's room.
"I'll take this for my bedroom," she said, "but the furniture is ghastly. It will have to be completely done over. Bobo's room shall be my boudoir."
Bobo glanced anxiously at Jack. "You can have my room of course," he said quickly. "But this is Jack's room."
It seemed as if she had just been lying in wait for him to say something like this. She whirled on him. "Well, and am I supposed to give way to your secretary? If you're willing to give up the best rooms to the servants I'm not!"