se, and, she had to confess, all the secret meetings with Rupert did give the affair a certain edge. eded in persuading Osgood, who would doanything or go anywhere that offered the opportunity for pleasant companyand junket. Severely jolted, he felt it was increasingly necessary to make a joke about the whole thing. On her suggestion he agreed to come early in the week; he specifiedMonday, without fail.
Rupert's a very clever operator, and we can't afford to lose 'im. reputations as aliterary fixture; his work was not yet recognized by them as being ofimportant meaning and serious purport. ''I'm sorry. They had learned his gift as a romancer,and with this audience he might be as extravagant as he liked.
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