A Case in Camera

at something had happened about that wedding-certainly that it had

ind and surroundings. He was fully dressed, but he wore yesterday's collar and his boots had not been cleaned. His bed was unmade, his furniture undusted, his floor unswept. He seemed to have got up late, to have wondered what after all there was to ge

d perfunctorily. "Have some

our breakfast. I've just been ro

Tuesday," R

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ow with him-you know

en't you at

ively. "Oh-I chu

ou were to have got

that," he replied,

altogether,

runted. "Let's talk a

r him to talk about precisely that. Even an active smart was preferable to sloth and

end, you haven't shaved this morning. That sort of thing doesn't help. Talk

aven't looked at the Era. Sh

ings-like this? Sure

tick it," he answered with an off

ck w

ryth

Now, it appeared, it had power to break off an engagement and to bring Rooke

ing his sleeve, "we've been friend

upted me petulantly. "

you to tell me why you left the studio, and why Mrs. Cun

bit he yielded. In sullen, rese

gone right. Nothing at all. Everybody's fed up to the back teeth, Esdaile t

hat photograph

at his windows for two or three days on end like that? Then they started pulling his leg at the Club

ed; but that's over now, and I don't quite s

it into her head there was something uncanny about the place, and so there is. Too

an by keeping y

board or something down there one day; it was his own suggestion; but he twisted and wriggled and tried to cry off till I was about at the end of my patience

ou go

I could see. I admit I'd wondered once or twice whether there was anything

other morning when he was

door. It was there when I came away. One day he nearly jumps down your throat when you ask him for the key, and the next thing he goes and leaves it in the door! I'm sure he did it on purpose too. It was just like say

Would I have continued in a house the offer of which had promised so much happiness that on