[Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington]@TWC D-Link bookAlice Adams CHAPTER XXI 29/35
Isn't it time you quit bothering about the looks of the table? Your mother's been talking to him about half an hour now, and I had the idea he came on your account, not hers.
Hadn't you better go and----" "Just a minute." Alice said, piteously.
"Do YOU think it looks all right ?" "The flowers? Fine! Hadn't you better leave 'em the way they are, though ?" "Just a minute," she begged again.
"Just ONE minute, papa!" And she exchanged a rose in front of Russell's plate for one that seemed to her a little larger. "You better come on," Adams said, moving to the door. "Just ONE more second, papa." She shook her head, lamenting.
"Oh, I wish we'd rented some silver!" "Why ?" "Because so much of the plating has rubbed off a lot of it.
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