Somerset Maugham Fullscreen An hour before the Fiflocklock (1923)

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They had no self-starter; it was an old car, and Davis went to the bonnet to crank it up.

Mr Skinner turned round and looked petulantly at Millicent.

'I ought never to have been told,' he said.

'I think it was most selfish of you.'

Davis took his seat and they drove off to the Canon's garden-party.