This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ... at hand, and her derisive rejection of his proposal to ride out home with her and return in the Elevated, had something to do with this feeling. Also, there was observable about her, at the wheel of her car, a faint re-emergence of her efficient office manner. Anyhow, when he stood on the pavement outside hia own door ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ... at hand, and her derisive rejection of his proposal to ride out home with her and return in the Elevated, had something to do with this feeling. Also, there was observable about her, at the wheel of her car, a faint re-emergence of her efficient office manner. Anyhow, when he stood on the pavement outside hia own door--and she with five or six miles still to drive to hers!--there was a touch of apology about his farewell. She'd given him a delightful evening and he hoped she hadn't been too heavily bored with all his talk;--such an unconscionable lot of it, he was afraid, about himself. At this she smiled at him with a gleam of clear mischief. "Anyway," she remarked, "you've taught me the meaning of the word avuncular. You don't want to forget that!" She didn't leave him, though, on that note, for while he was still stammering for the first word of a reply, she added indignantly: "Henry! Use your imagination. Forget what you think you're like, for a minute, and think what this evening has been like, for me. Do you suppose I'm used to better companyt Now, if I say I've had a wonderful time, myself, will you decide I was pretendingt" "There's an easy test of that," he said. "When will you try it againt" "Any time!" she declared, and having shaken hands with him all over again, she drove off and left him jubilant. 3 On the following Sunday afternoon, Jennie got a telegram from Joe Greer. It had been delivered at her flat before noon, but as she had been out for lunch she didn't find it until her return, about four o'clock. He was arriving that day, he said, over the Northwestern, at fivethirty, for a few hours only, as he was going out again that night. He wanted a talk with her and a visit with Trix...
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