"Inside, the crimson room bloomed with light. Tom and Miss Baker sat at either end of the long couch and she read aloud to him from the "Saturday Evening Post" -- the words, murmurous and uninflected, running together in a soothing tune. The lamp-light, bright on his boots and dull on the autumn-leaf yellow of her hair, glinted along the paper as she turned a page with a flutter of slender muscles in her arms." (22)
Illustration for Chapter 2
"Then I heard footsteps on a stairs and in the moment the thickish figure of a woman blocked out the from the light office to the door. She was in the middle thirties and faintly stout, but she carried her surplus flesh sensuously as some women can. Her face, above a spotted dress of dark blue crepe-de-chine..." (29)
(Pg. 11) – supercilious: contemptuous, disdain
(Pg. 20) – gayety: the state or quality of being
lighthearted or cheerful.
(Pg. 21) – veranda: a kind of covered balcony with roof
extending.
(Pg. 21) – turbulent: violently disturbed or confused
(Pg. 23) – rotogravure: a printing system using rotary press
with intaglio cylinder.
(Pg. 24) – Nordic: of or relating to Scandinavia, Finland,
Iceland, and the Faroe Islands.
Vocabulary: Chapter 2
(Pg. 21) – oculist: eye disease specialist
(Pg. 29) – anaemic: suffering of anemia
(Pg. 34) – proprietary: an owner, especially shop or hotel.
(Pg. 35) – vitality: liveliness and energy
(Pg. 35) –pivot: pin or center of which anything balances or
turns
(Pg. 38) – gypped: to defraud or rob by some sharp practice;
swindle; cheat
(Pg. 38) – kyke: a Jewish person
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