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SOMETIMESCHAPTER I"For how can I be sureI shall see again The world on the first of May Shining after rain?"Sara Teasdale.T^VON'T go," Pleydell said, "don't be an assftl Robert, don't break up a perfectly good binge "by cutting off like this, just at the beginning ofeverythingbe a sport, stay.""Look here, I would," Robert answered with smiling earnestness, "but I can't. Honestly. I've promised Nicky to go to her place to meet some people, special friends of hers. And it's nearly eleven now."He shot out his opera hat, and fitted it on to his dark head.Pleydell grumbled all the way downstairs, using the names of guests yet to come as weapons to batter down Robert's resolve. When Robert emerged into King1 Street, and his departure became an extremely obvious fact, he said at last, with resignation:"Well, good-bye, it's a curse your going, it spoils everything, but if you will!-""Must. Awfully sorry," Robert said; he hesitated ai second, nodded again, then started leisurely for Carlton House Terrace.As he walked along he wondered why on earth people?1