[The Awkward Age by Henry James]@TWC D-Link bookThe Awkward Age BOOK EIGHTH 62/84
You spoke without your cue." "Oh!" said Edward Brookenham. "That's it, Jane"-- Mrs.Brook continued to take it beautifully.
"We dressed to-day in a hurry and hadn't time for our usual rehearsal. Edward, when we dine out, generally brings three pocket-handkerchiefs and six jokes.
I leave the management of the handkerchiefs to his own taste, but we mostly try together in advance to arrange a career for the other things.
It's some charming light thing of my own that's supposed to give him the sign." "Only sometimes he confounds"-- Vanderbank helped her out--"your light and your heavy!" He had got up to make room for his host of so many occasions and, having forced him into the empty chair, now moved vaguely off to the quarter of the room occupied by Nanda and Mr.Cashmore. "That's very well," the Duchess resumed, "but it doesn't at all clear you, cara mia, of the misdemeanour of setting up as a felt domestic need something of which Edward proves deeply unconscious.
He has put his finger on Nanda's true interest.
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