[The Reason Why by Elinor Glyn]@TWC D-Link bookThe Reason Why CHAPTER IX 15/15
There is plenty of time so I will go and have tea with you at Neville Street.
It will be like old times, we will get some cakes and other things on the way, and boil the kettle on the fire." So Mimo gladly got in with her and they started.
He had a new suit of clothes and a new felt hat, and looked a wonderfully handsome foreign gentleman; his manner to women was always courteous and gallant.
Zara smiled and looked almost happy, as they arranged the details of their surprise tea party for Mirko. At that moment there passed them in Whitehall a motorcar going very fast, the occupant of which, a handsome young man, caught the most fleeting glimpse of them--hardly enough to be certain he recognized Zara.
But it gave him a great start and a thrill. "It cannot be she," he said to himself, "she went to Paris yesterday; but if it is--who is the man ?" He altered his plans, went back to his rooms, and sat moodily down in his favorite chair--an unpleasant, gnawing uncertainty in his heart..
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