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IX
When she awoke in the morning she told herself
that he would very likely not come at all, and so
much the better — but when he knocked at her
door she was pleased all the same.
“I have had nothing to eat yet, Miss Winge. Could you
give me a cup of tea and some bread?”
Jenny looked about her in the room.
“Yes, but the room isn’t done yet.”
“I’ll shut my eyes while you lead me on to the balcony,”
said Gram from behind the door. “I am dying for a cup of
tea.”
“Very well, half a minute.” Jenny covered her bed with
the counterpane, tidied the dressing-table, and changed her
dressing-jacket for a long kimono. “Come in, and please go
and sit on the balcony while I get your tea.” She brought out
a stool and placed some bread and cheese on it.
Gram looked at her bare, white arms in the long, fluttering
sleeves of the dark blue kimono with a pattern of yellow and
purple iris.
“What a pretty thing you have on. It looks like a real
geisha dress.”
“It is real. Cesca and I bought these in Paris to wear at
home in the morning.”
“It is a capital idea, I think, to go about like that and look
pretty when you are alone. I like it.”
He lit a cigarette and gazed at the smoke as it rose in the
air.
“Ugh! At home the maid and my mother and sister used
to look like anything in the morning. Don’t you think women
ought always to make themselves look as pretty as possible?”
“Yes, but it isn’t always possible when you have to do
housework.”
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