[The Double Traitor by E. Phillips Oppenheim]@TWC D-Link bookThe Double Traitor CHAPTER XIV 17/18
To-night I dine with him, and I find a different person." "He is a perfect dear," one of the other girls exclaimed, "but so curiously inquisitive! I have a great friend, a gunner, whom I brought with me to one of his parties, and he is always asking me questions about him and his work.
I had to absolutely worry Dick so as to be able to answer all his questions, didn't I, Rosa ?" Miss Morgen nodded a little guardedly. "I should not call him really inquisitive," she said.
"It is because he likes to seem interested in the subject which interests you." "I am not at all sure whether that is true," the other young lady objected.
"You remember when Ellison Gray was always around with us? Why, I know that Mr.Selingman simply worried Maud's life out of her to get a little model of his aeroplane from him.
There were no end of things he wanted to know about cubic feet and dimensions.
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