13/26 Moreover, when charged with the delinquency, she became abusive, so very abusive that we were obliged to insist upon her immediate departure.' 'Do you think she smoked ?' asked Monica laughingly. She was a person of advanced ideas, as you see; practically a communist. But I doubt whether honeydew had any charms for her personally. It seems more probable that some milkman, or baker's assistant, or even metropolitan policeman, benefited by her communism.' Indifferent to the progress of time, Bevis talked on with his usual jocoseness, now and then shaking his tawny hair in a fit of laughter the most contagious. They want me to live at Bordeaux for a tune, two or three years perhaps. |