Poor Relations. Compton Mackenzie
you're alone you're not disturbed."
John who was still sensitive to Edith's truisms tried to cover her last by incorporating Hilda in the conversation with a "What room do you advise?"
"Why not the dining-room? I'll tell Emily to clear away the breakfast things at once."
"Clear away?" Laurence repeated.
"And they won't be laying for lunch till a quarter-to-one."
"Laying for lunch?" Laurence gasped. "My dear Hilda! I don't wish to attribute to my—ah—work an importance which perhaps as a hitherto unacted playwright I have no right to attribute, but I think John at any rate will appreciate my objection to working with—ah—the bread-knife suspended over my head like the proverbial sword of Damocles. No, I'm afraid I must rule out the dining-room as a practicable environment."
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