22/40 Because it's the truth, no matter whose lips uttered it." He released her hands and she went away to dress herself for the pose. Packing cases, trunks, bundles, boxes were scattered and piled up in every direction, and the master of the establishment, apparently in excellent health, reclined on a lounge in the centre of chaos, the long clay stem of a church-warden pipe between his lips, puffing rings at the ceiling. Rita told you all about it, didn't she? What did Billy Ogilvy say ?" "Oh, I've got _it_ all right. |