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Of course it was the very irony of fate that Suzette should have

selected this very afternoon to cooing down to see--!

Antoine opened the door to her while Burton was out I heard afterwards

that she told him she had an appoint her in She was quite quietly dressed and had no great

look of the demi-monde, and a new footman, blunted ar service,

was probably i scent which she was

saturated with--that perfu for, and which she reverted to using alhen she

went away froain when she

returned

Antoine cae, and said "a lady was in the

salon to see me by appointht be Coralie, and

fearing Alathea ht be aard for

her, I hastened to rise and go in to see and get rid of the inopportune

guest I told Antoine he ain without