Bohemian Girl, The by Cameron Kenneth
Author:Cameron Kenneth [Cameron Kenneth]
Format: epub
Tags: english
ISBN: 9780752890470
Publisher: Orion Books Limited
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
‘His mama implied that you had lured her poor boy to your room. I suppose she thinks you provided the red paint, too.’
Janet Striker made a face. ‘And Jarrold-known-as-Cosgrove has been sent off to Mama’s country house with two male nurses. Detective Sergeant Munro is keeping me up to date.’
Denton scowled. ‘Some house arrest - hard time in a stately home. Couple of medical men to look in weekly, presumably with lunch laid on. Hard on them, too.’
Janet Striker laughed. ‘No good being angry.’
‘He’s getting off as good as scot-free. I’d tan his hide for him.’
They were eating at Pinoli’s in Wardour Street. He was in ‘informal’ evening clothes - short black jacket with silk revers, white waistcoat, white tie - and she was in a new suit of a dark-green wool tailored to an almost masculine cut, the jacket thigh-length like a frock coat, the skirt box-pleated at the front and back to accommodate her long stride. ‘I like that dress,’ he said.
‘It isn’t a dress; it’s a suit. You look like a successful manufacturer. ’
‘Good a disguise as any.’
‘I thought you enjoyed being an outsider.’
‘It’s no good if you have to work at it. Working at it is Bohemian, isn’t it - the Slade kids in their rags?’
She laughed. ‘I’d never take you for a Bohemian.’
A week had gone by. The book’s end was in sight, if he could keep up the pace. She’d spent a night at his house; a meeting at her hotel had proved less happy - he’d taken a room overnight, had come to her room. It had seemed ‘sordid’, in her word. He had had to admit it had been pretty scatty. He said, ‘We have to make some better arrangement.’
‘We will.’ She had a small, ridiculous hat perched on her forehead; it looked like a soldier’s pillbox, except that instead of a chinstrap it had a ribbon that went around the back of her head. She said, ‘I keep feeling that that thing is falling off into my food.’
‘It’s perky.’
‘“Perky”! Mrs Cohan has an idea for a kind of homburg with a fancy band.’
‘Mrs Cohan. Wife to the Stepney Jew-Boy?’
‘They live in the same house as I did, two floors down. She sews - six days a week, making shirts to sell for three-and-six apiece, for which she gets fourpence each. He has no job, as you know. And they’re good people, Denton! She does magnificent embroidery - in Poland, she did wedding dresses and court gowns. She’s going to make me more dresses. We’re thinking along rather Janey-Morris-y lines.’
Denton looked blank.
‘William Morris’s bride. The original Pre-Raphaelite woman. No corset and her hair unbound. Ruth Castle told me about her when I was a beginner.’
‘You’ll be a sight on Oxford Street.’
‘I shan’t wear them on Oxford Street. I’ll wear them at home, and this sort of thing -’ she pulled at one lapel of her jacket - ‘when I’m out.’
‘Now who’s planning to wear a disguise?’
‘Well—There’ll be a real me and a pretend me, and the real one will live at home - if ever I get a home again.
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