CHAPTER 7
PART 21: He is Urged to Desert his Galley
CHAPTER VII
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That night Elena and I played bridge against Nannie Allsotts and Warwick Risby. I was very much in love with Elena, but I hold it against her, even now, that she insisted on discarding from strength. However, there was to be a little supper afterward, and you may depend upon it that Mrs. Vokins was seeing to its preparation.
She came into the room about eleven o'clock, beaming with kindliness and flushed -- I am sure -- by some slight previous commerce with the kitchen-fire.