Atdtda23: [47.3ii] Femme fatale, 666

Paul Nightingale isread at btinternet.com
Mon Dec 24 02:43:18 CST 2007


[666.37-40] After which, as if surprised at the vehemence of his reaction,
Mouffette jumped off the bed and while Reef went looking for an ice bucket,
ran off somehow into the vast hotel. Reef chased her for a while but found
it was getting him funny looks from the staff.

Not "a four-door farce" (561), then. However, cf. Humfried's law on 597:

... so romance in this town is often pursued as little beyond a pretext for
running in and out of doors, not to mention up and down stairs, while
talking nonstop and, on auspicious days, screaming.




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