_The Kiss That Changed The World_--By Massy
B. M'Dudgeon ............................. 1 copy
_Pond and Pink Powder_--By Gertie Stumps ... 1 copy
_Sermons For War Time_--By the Bishop of
Bayswater ............................. 100 copies
"Come now, you really have done enough. Stop at the Bishop."
"I wish he would pay the freightage on his stupid sermons. Forty
piastres to pay on the parcel. And he expects to be thanked for it.
Well, I'll knock off if you'll come and laze with me for a bit in the
garden.... Do I shine? I feel like it!"
Trixie gathered up her long thin limbs, stood up and produced a
vanity-case.
"Here and there.... But every one does.... I'm beginning to get
used to it. No! I'm not coming to smoke your new Macedonian
cigarettes, and have iced-tea with lemon in the garden this
afternoon. You are coming to tea with me, in the house of a great
friend of mine."
"Who is your friend?" asked Trixie, intent on the little circular
mirror.
"A Jew."
"I rather like Jews. Where does your friend live?"
"Numero VII., Rue el Farad, Alexandria. His house," Katharine went
on, quoting John Hazel, "is one of the few relics extant of the
ancient city, a wonderfully-preserved example of the Roman-Egyptian
Domestic Style."
"'I guess I shall admire to come,' as that American Nursing-Sister
said when you asked her to drive to the Antoniadis Gardens. And is
your friend like his house--a wonderfully preserved example of the
ancient what-do-you-call-it style?"
Katharine answered promptly and warmly:
"He certainly is a wonderfully-preserved example of unspoiled Faith,
and unstained Honour, and old-world Loyalty."
"How nice!" said Lady Wastwood, sweetly. But she said to herself: "I
would never have believed it--Kathy Forbis being Kathy Forbis.
But--if she is able to forget poor Edward Yaill, even for a
wonderfully-preserved example of all the old-world virtues, with
shiny jet-black curls and a curly profile--it would be--for her, poor
girl--rather a good thing."