Thank you. I should like a gin and vermouth."
Colonel Luscombe looked at her rather doubtfully. Hesupposed girls of – what was she? – Sixteen? Seventeen? – did drink gin and vermouth.But he reassured himself that Elvira knew, so to speak, correct Greenwich social time. Heordered a gin and vermouth and a dry sherry.
He cleared his throat and asked:
"How was Italy?"
"Very nice, thank you."
"And the place you were at, the Contessa what's-her-name? Not too grim?"
"She is rather strict. But I didn't let that worry me."
He looked at her, not quite sure whether the replywas not slightly ambiguous.
He said, stammering a little, but with a morenatural
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