Twilight Sleep
stride. You underrate her capacity. Stan has been giving me a hint of something a good deal more volcanic."
Nona felt an inward tremor; was she going to hear Lita's name? She turned her glance on Heuston with a certain hostility.
"Oh, Stan's hints—."
"You see what Nona thinks of my views on cities and men," Heuston shrugged. He had remained on his feet, as though about to take leave; but once again the girl felt his eager eyes beseeching her.
"Are you waiting to walk home with me? You needn't. I'm going stay for hours," she said, smiling across him at Wyant as she settled down into one of the chintz armchairs.
"Aren't you a little hard on him?" Wyant suggested, when the door had closed on their visitor. "It's not exactly a crime to want to walk home with you."
Nona made an impatient gesture. "Stan bores me."
"Ah, well, I suppose he's not enough of a novelty. Or not up-to-date enough; your dates. Some of his ideas seem to me pretty subversive; but I suppose in your set and Lita's a young man who doesn't jazz all day and drink all night—or vice versa—is a back number."
The girl did not take this up, and after a moment Wyant continued, in his half-mocking half-querulous
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