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Sometimes I get the creeps."
I might have given her the sound advice to find healthy occupation
in training crocodiles to sit up and beg; but an idea which advanced
thinkers might classify as more suburban was beginning to take shape in
my mind.
"Has it occurred to you," I said, "that now you have assumed the
qualifications imposed by Captain Vauvenarde for bearing his name?"
"I don't understand."
"You no longer perform in public. He would have no possible grievance
against you."
"Are you suggesting that I should go back to my husband?" she gasped.
"I am," said I, feeling mighty diplomatic.
She looked straight in front of her, with parted lips, fingering her
handkerchief and evidently pondering the entirely new suggestion. I
thought it best to let her ponder. As a general rule, people will do
anything in the world rather than think; so, when one sees a human
being wrapped in thought, one ought to regard wilful disturbance of the
process as sacrilege. I lit a cigarette and wandered about the room.


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