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At that moment the crowd returned from the other room and the Duchesse

rose and left me

Coralie now sat with me

"Mes compliments, Nicholas! She is lovely! But what a fox,--thou!"

"As out for oneself!"

Coralie laughed; she has a philosophic spirit, as I have found always

those much love-battered ones possess She accepts ain looks to the main chance to see how she can benefit by it

At last the whole thing was over, and Maurice and I had a cigarette

together in the tea room

People would be crazy, "simply crazy, my dear chap," about Alathea, he

told ht I had been! How fortunate I

was! When was I going to England?

He said farewells after this, and once ha been received now as my wife, and by the

Duchesse whoesting she will not live in the flat with

herself to speak about Suzette, because the inference would be that she