Chapter 53

"Oh, well--you know your own affairs. Only, with an invitation from the Gunthers to spend August with them----" "I'd already refused it. Don't you think this little apricot sprigged print is a darling?" "Of course it's pretty enough, only it has no special style. I should think you'd have to wear some sort of severe, professional-looking thing in a bookshop, even in summer." "Probably I shall. But I might now and then be off duty for an hour, and venture to revel in something not so severe." There was no bringing E…