" Once more
he glanced down at the dainty shoe with its high French heel. "I don't
wonder it turned. A proper shoe for mountaineering!" That rancor against
a frivolity of feminine fashion that holds a menace to health or safety,
so characteristic of the utilitarian masculine mind, was a touch of his
old individuality, and it made him seem to her more like himself of yore.
The resemblance did not tend to confirm her composure, and she was almost
piteous as she protested that she could not, she would not, go near the
hotel again.
"Why, you need not, then," he reassured her abruptly, waiving the
possibility of insistence, as much as to say it was no concern of his.
"I might walk to the observatory," she suggested, "and--and--I need not
detain you then."
"In view of three bandits in slouched hats, although all on the
back-track--and although I am convinced that it was but their astral
apparitions with which you were favored--I will venture to intrude my
society until I can see you to the Briscoe bungalow.
Pages:
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73