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If Sam did not find them cheery, he was amused bythe pleasant carelessness of
Mrs.
No wonder Americans flee back home to Sussex or Somerset!
He sipped his
iced tea,appreciative of the thin tart taste against his tongue. Why do you
insiston thinking everybody else is lonely, merely because you are? The little
man looked scornfully cautious. He saw a familiar-looking womanpass his
table.
Shall I go back to America, without Fran?
He was able to laugh at
himself: If there were such a womananywhere, what would she want with you?
HE
wasnt going to be taken in by any of your slick internationalcrooks! Why do you
insiston thinking everybody else is lonely, merely because you are?
And that
gave us boysa chance to get in a little petting ourselves! He had tohave some
one to talk to, and never did he meet any one whom heknew. The little man
looked scornfully cautious. It was as though she found everythingin life
amusing and liked to think about it aloud.
But he was also lonely, despite the
show of the Piazza.
Sam rejoiced that Edith Cortright might prove to be human,
patientwith large lost men.
I cant imagine you in any complications, he
wondered.
The butler said that she HAD ordered broccoli; and the maid came
inwith clacking slippers.
He was content, by comparison with his active
agonizing in Paris.
Then, shocked, herealized that perhaps they were.
It was an
apartment for giants to live in.
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