[The Irrational Knot by George Bernard Shaw]@TWC D-Link bookThe Irrational Knot CHAPTER I 62/65
May I advise you not to wait until Susanna returns.
There is no chance of a reconciliation to-night." "I dont want any reconciliation." "Of course not; I had forgotten," replied Conolly, placably.
"Then I suppose you will go before she has finished dressing." "I shall go now," said Marmaduke, buttoning his overcoat, and turning away. "Good-night," said Conolly. "Good-night," muttered Marmaduke, petulantly, and disappeared. Conolly waited a moment, so that he might not overtake Lind.
He then went for a cab, and waited at the stage door until his sister came down, frowning.
She got into the hansom without a word. "Why dont you have a brougham, instead of going about in cabs ?" he said, as they drove away. "Because I like a hansom better than a brougham; and I had rather pay four shillings a night and travel comfortably, than thirteen and be half suffocated." "I thought the appearance of----" "There is no use in your talking to me.
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