"Where is he ?" Axia and Phoebe suddenly leaned and whispered to each other across the table, and before Amory realized it they found themselves on their way to the door.
"Where now ?" "Up to the flat," suggested Phoebe.

"We've got brandy and fizz--and everything's slow down here to-night." Amory considered quickly.

He hadn't been drinking, and decided that if he took no more, it would be reasonably discreet for him to trot along in the party.

In fact, it would be, perhaps, the thing to do in order to keep an eye on Sloane, who was not in a state to do his own thinking.

So he took Axia's arm and, piling intimately into a taxicab, they drove out over the hundreds and drew up at a tall, white-stone apartment-house.
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