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And then they would ask each other whose deal it was and `` How were the honours ? '' and then they would be at it again . Claybrook laughed at the slightest provocation , and seemed to pay a little too obsequious attention to whatever Thompson had to say , and after a while the conversation narrowed down entirely to the two men , with Mrs. Thompson contracting a glassy look in her pale-blue eyes beneath their fine-plucked brows . And at ten o'clock she stifled a yawn behind her handkerchief , threw down her cards , got up and went over to the corner where stood an expensive `` Victrola . '' `` Let 's have a little jazz , '' she said brightly . The men were busy discussing the income tax and the ways of avoiding it and did not seem to mind at all . And Mary Louise welcomed the suggestion with relief .