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"Well, you are honest, Nina"

She had her coffee and liqueur, she was graceful and composed and

refined, either Jihed when she had left

"Out with it, Burton!"

"Mrs Ardilawn is a kind lady, Sir Nicholas"

"Char"

"I believe you'd be better with some lady to look after you, Sir--"

"To hell with you Telephone for Mr Maurice--I don't want any woman--we

can play piquet"

This is how my day ended--

Maurice and piquet--then theand the divorcée for dinner--and now

alone again! The sickening rot of it all

Sunday--Nina careat comfort to her

in this moment of her life, so full of indecision--It seems that Jim has

turned up too, at the Ritz, where Rochester still is, and that his

physical charain

"I am really very worried Nicholas," she said, "and you, who are a dear

faht to be able to help