…smoking is just a habit. ‘Tolstoy’, she said, mentioning someone I hadn’t met, ‘says that just as much pleasure can be got from twirling the fingers’. My impulse was to tell her Tolstoy was off his onion, but I choked down the heated words. For all I know, the man might be a bosom pal of hers and she might resent criticism of him, however justified.
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