Page 106 - tender-is-the-night

‘I think it will be better if we drop you.’
‘But—‘ began Collis; he grasped the situation at last and
began discussing with Rosemary when he would see her
again.
Finally, he was gone, with the shadowy unimportance
but the offensive bulk of the third party. The car stopped
unexpectedly, unsatisfactorily, at the address Dick had giv-
en. He drew a long breath.
‘Shall we go in?’
‘I don’t care,’ Rosemary said. ‘I’ll do anything you want.’
He considered.
‘I almost have to go in—she wants to buy some pictures
from a friend of mine who needs the money.’
Rosemary smoothed the brief expressive disarray of her
hair.
‘We’ll stay just five minutes,’ he decided. ‘You’re not go-
ing to like these people.’
She assumed that they were dull and stereotyped people,
or gross and drunken people, or tiresome, insistent people,
or any of the sorts of people that the Divers avoided. She
was entirely unprepared for the impression that the scene
made on her.

106 Tender is the Night