I had hoped with these words to start his conscience working on all twelve cylinders, but something seemed to have gone wrong with the machinery, for he remained as calm and unmoved as the fish on ice he so closely resembled.
After bending an ear to this for a while I was able to see what was causing it. I had fed sparsely at the dinner table, with the result that I had become as hungry as dammit.
I met Roderick just now, and he asked me if I knew where you were, because he wants to tear you limb from limb owing to his having seen you kiss the cook.'
Gussie's jaw fell with a dull thud.
'You never told me that,' he said to me, and one spotted the note of reproach in his voice.
'No, sorry, I forgot to mention it. But it's true. You'd better start coping. Run like a hare, is my advice
As I told you, I have always loved her, and her happiness is very dear to me. It is everything to me. To give her a moment's pleasure I would cut myself in pieces.'
I couldn't follow him there, but before I could go into the question of whether girls enjoy seeing people cut themselves in pieces he had resumed