We were afraid some one outside would hear her; the deadening was burnt out of the walls of the Fairmont at the time of the fire.

But we were in the middle room of the suite.
"Nick told her in his dreadful cold expressionless voice that if she ever did that again he'd never play another game with her.

That meant that they'd all drop her, and she came to and promised, and she kept her word.
Poker is the breath of life to her.

I think she'd become a drug fiend if she couldn't have it.
"At last they persuaded me to play.

We were playing at Nick's, and after a light dinner served by his Jap, we went right on playing until midnight.