The autumn rain had made every surface tacky, the wet seats of painted red picnic tables were avoided. It was now getting dusk, and he could only imperfectly distinguish the features and figure of the stranger. Canton was something like a blind alley; unless you were native, you couldn't get anywhere except by returning to Hong-Kong and starting afresh. Both ladies were on easy and friendly terms with all that was best in Morningside Park society; they had an afternoon once a month that was quite well attended, they sometimes gave musical evenings, they dined out and gave a finish to people’s dinners, they had a full-sized croquet lawn and tennis beyond, and understood the art of bringing people together. All emotions laid hold of him, but none could he stay long enough to analyze it. It was a large, littered, self-forgetful apartment, decorated with unframed charcoal sketches by various incipient masters; and an open bookcase, surmounted by plaster casts and the half of a human skull, displayed an odd miscellany of books—Shaw and Swinburne, Tom Jones, Fabian Essays, Pope and Dumas, cheek by jowl. Besides, it did not fit her well, which was why the loose wimple had slipped. ‘Keep still, for God’s sake! Hilary will send him off all right and tight, never fear.
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