As it
seemed to her that in California everybody shook hands with everybody
else on the slightest occasions, sometimes to save further conversation,
she gave him her own. He shook it, less forcibly than she had feared,
and abruptly left her. For a moment she was piqued at this superior and
somewhat brusque way of ignoring her request, but reflecting that it
might be the awkwardness of an untrained man, she dismissed it from her
mind. The voices of her friends in the already resounding passages also
recalled her to the fact that she had been wandering about the house
with a stranger, and she rejoined them a little self-consciously.
"Well, my dear," said Mrs. Leyton, gayly, "it seems we are to stay.
Leyton says Rushbrook won't hear of our going."
"Does that mean that your husband takes the whole opera troupe over to
your house in exchange?"
"Don't be satirical, but congratulate yourself on your opportunity of
seeing an awfully funny gathering. I wouldn't have you miss it for the
world.
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