"You play, do you ?" "Oh, I did.

I don't much any more.

Sometimes I try a set with Rolfe or Bevy; but they both beat me so badly." "Bevy?
Who is Bevy ?" "Oh, that's short of Berenice.

It's what Rolfe called her when he was a baby." "Bevy! I think that rather nice." "I always like it, too.

Somehow it seems to suit her, and yet I don't know why." Before dinner Berenice made her appearance, freshened by a bath and clad in a light summer dress that appeared to Cowperwood to be all flounces, and the more graceful in its lines for the problematic absence of a corset.