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Chapter 41 THE ENVOY
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The next night G.J., having been hailed by an acquaintance, was talking at the top of the steps beneath the portal of a club in Piccadilly. It was after ten by the clocks, and nearly, but not quite, dark. A warm, rather heavy, evening shower had ceased. This was the beginning of the great macintosh epoch1, by-product2 of the war, when the paucity3 of the means of vehicular locomotion4 had rendered macintoshes permissible5, even for women with pretensions6 to smartness; and at intervals7 stylish8 girls on their way home from unaccustomed overtime9, passed the doors in transparent11 macintoshes of pink, yellow or green, as scornful as military officers of the effeminate umbrella, whose use was being confined to clubmen and old dowdies.
The acquaintance sought advice from G.J. about the shutting up of households for Belgian refugees. G.J. answered absently, not concealing13 that he was in a hurry. He had, in fact, been held up within three minutes of the scene of his secret idyll, and was anxious to arrive there. He had promised himself this surprise visit to Christine as some sort of recompense and narcotic14 for the immense disturbance
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debauch
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subconsciousness
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