No, I returned to the Groves'. It's no good being in
New York alone. We'll have our party together there before Christmas."
"I imagined you'd see a lot of her."
"Of Mina Raff? What nonsense! She is working all day and practically
never goes out. People have such wrong ideas about actresses, or else
they have changed and the opinions have stood still. They are as
business-like now as lawyers; you make an appointment with their
secretaries. Besides that, Mina doesn't specially attract me."
"At any rate you call her Mina."
"Why so I do; I hadn't noticed; but she hasn't started to call me Lee;
I must correct her."
"They played bridge afterward," Fanny said, referring, he gathered, to
the occasion he had missed. "That is, the Rodmans and the Luces did,
and I sat around. People are too selfish for anything!" Her voice grew
sharper. "They stayed until after twelve, just because Borden was
nineteen dollars back at one time. And they drank all that was left of
your special Mount Vernon. It was last night that you were at the St.
Regis?"
"No," he corrected her, "the night before. Last evening I had dinner
with the Groves." This was so nearly true that he advanced it with
satisfaction. "Afterward we went to the Greenwich Follies."
"I don't see how you had to wait, then," she observed instantly. "You
were in New York on account of Claire, you stayed three nights, and
only saw Mina Raff once.
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