Crossword-Solution: ISTRA 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

Say, gee, I ain’t talking too nutty, am I?” “‘Nutty’? You mean ‘idiotically’? The slang’s changed since—Oh yes, of course; you’ve succeeded in talking quite nice and ‘idiotic.’” “Oh, say, gee, I didn’t mean to—When you been so nice and all to me—” “Don’t apologize!” Istra Nash demanded, savagely.

Cur’ous.” In her room Istra Nash inspected her nose in a mirror, powdered, and sat down to write, on thick creamy paper: Skilly dear, I’m in a fierce Bloomsbury boarding-house—bores —except for a Phe-nomenon—little man of 35 or 40 with embryonic imagination & a virgin soul.

Then he was proving that Istra would, and would not, be the perfect comrade among women when some one knocked at his door.

Istra sat on the floor before the fire, Turk-wise, her quick delicate fingers drumming excitedly on her knees.

Istra whisked the writing-table with the Reseda-green cover over before the fire, chucked its papers on the bed, and placed a bunch of roses on one end, moving the small blue vase two inches to the right, then two inches forward.