The doorman greeted the headmaster frantically, and informed us that the duke and his secretary, Mr. Wilder, were here, and waiting for the headmaster's return.
Caravaggio went to prison for assault, Gauguin had a relationship with a 13-year-old Tahitian girl, and Pablo Picasso abused his partners, proclaiming there were only two kinds of women, goddesses and doormats.
I would doze off to the slap of cards, and the click of chips, and wake up when the bell-boy came in with another round, which he did every six minutes.
And at that the housekeeper began tucking in the covers at the foot of the bed, and the lank waitress walked to the window and pulled down the shade, and the bell-boy muttered something about ice-water.