The Affair at the Inn - Paperback

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: paulin that covered the motor for my fur- lined coat, and then I followed her into the inn. " Look here," I said, " better put this on; you 're horribly cold." She seemed half inclined to refuse, but finally let me put the coat over her shoulders and run her arms into the sleeves. " You 're pretty damp," I observed. " 'Deed I am! " she shivered. " Miss Eve- sham and I went for a walk and got caught in the rain as usual. My hair 's all wet too ! " " Better dry it," I suggested. She ran off to some room or other, and when, she reappeared she had two plaits of dark hair, as thick as bellropes, hanging down her back. With that and my motor coat, Miss Virginia cut a pretty queer figure. I cannot say she looked plain, however; her spirits had come back, and so had mine, strange to say, for the day was far from finished. There was a parlour in the inn, so low in Copyright, 1904, by the Curtis Publishing Co. I CANNOT SAY SHE LOOKED PLAIN, HOWEVER the ceiling that I could not stand up straight in it, and was forever knocking my head against the rafters. When we went in, this place was as full of women as it could hold, all fighting like cats, ? Mrs. MacGill, Mrs. Pomeroy, Miss Evesham,?and all wondering how they were to get home. The place was simply steaming with tea. Mrs. MacGill, it appeared, utterly refused to go home in the pony trap unless it were driven hy me. Needless to say I declined this honour with a firmness equal to hers. Finally it was arranged, chiefly by Miss Evesham's management, that the two old ladies and herself were to go home in the motor with Johnson, while Miss Virginia and I negotiated the pony and trap. This was pretty thick, considering I had refused point-blank to drive Mrs. MacGjll, but Miss Evesham seemed to make it sound all rig...