1. ”
He spoke of secretarial work, but even there she would need to be able to do
typing and shorthand. . There will be
long stretches of idleness, heat, and enervation; and always the odour of drying
coconut. Winifred instantly picked it up. About her, as she had gone day by
day to and from the Tredgold College, she had seen and not seen many an
incidental aspect of those sides of life about which girls are expected to know
nothing, aspects that were extraordinarily relevant to her own position and
outlook on the world, and yet by convention ineffably remote. But some
little distance behind him, someone had come out from the shadow of the
building and, seeing the Frenchman reappear, darted back again as quickly. F. “Then why the devil,” he demanded, “do you let
me stand you dinners and the opera—and why do you come to a cabinet
particuliar with me?”
He became radiant with anger. He himself, middle-aged, steeped in traditions of the City and moneymaking, very ill-skilled in all the lighter graces of life, as he himself well knew,
could yet come to her invested with something of the halo of romance by the
almost magical powers of an unlimited banking account.
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