'Yes,' she said. 'I can. He is such a whole-hogger.'
'Whole-hogger! I should think so!' exclaimed Gudrun. 'But it is true,
Ursula, every woman in the room was ready to surrender to him.
Chanticleer isn't in it--even Fanny Bath, who is GENUINELY in love with
Billy Macfarlane! I never was more amazed in my life! And you know,
afterwards--I felt I was a whole ROOMFUL of women. I was no more myself
to him, than I was Queen Victoria. I was a whole roomful of women at
once. It was most astounding! But my eye, I'd caught a Sultan that
time--'
Gudrun's eyes were flashing, her cheek was hot, she looked strange,
exotic, satiric. Ursula was fascinated at once--and yet uneasy.
They had to get ready for dinner. Gudrun came down in a daring gown of
vivid green silk and tissue of gold, with green velvet bodice and a
strange black-and-white band round her hair. She was really brilliantly
beautiful and everybody noticed her. Gerald was in that full-blooded,
gleaming state when he was most handsome.
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