← With Rothenstein I paid my first visit to the Bodley Head. 🔊
← He flung back the wings of his cape with a gesture which, had not those wings been waterproof, might have seemed to hurl defiance at things in general. 🔊
← And I looked forward to them with positive impatience after I had had a second meeting with him. 🔊
← He had looked from his book to me, and I looked back over my shoulder with a vague sense that I ought to have recognized him. 🔊
← After exchanging a few words, I said with a glance to the open book, "I see I am interrupting you," and was about to pass on, 🔊
← but presently he resumed, speaking with a force that I had never known in him. 🔊
← I tried not to, I knew there was nothing to laugh at, my rudeness shamed me; but—I laughed with increasing volume. 🔊
← "I am a gentleman, and," he said with intense emphasis, "I thought I was in the company of gentlement." 🔊
← My name wasn't in the index, but—yes!" he said with a sudden change of tone, "that's what I'd forgotten. 🔊