the kind of air that sort of person something rather mysterious and perhaps just a shade just a shade although i admit mrs has as little of anything of that kind about her as you can expect and really is a lady well we were in the middle of � l most awfully nice ds it was i remember the was dressed with and a charming combination � and all of a sudden she said to me where is your husband lor my dear i replied safe tied to the end of a rod in scotland indeed he s nothing of the kind she replied your husband is on his way to london he s in the train this minute my husband i are you sure i m perfectly certain of it he started about an hour ago i made a rapid calculation in my mind mrs i said i ll send a message to the to get my things packed i must over by the the magic wheel day boat i shall be home before he is and i was and he came at the time she said he would come yes but i was saved i had had a very pleasant three days in so i didn t him for coming home unexpectedly as i might reasonably have done had i gone steadily oh the grind of the season of course it was touch and go whether my lord should find out but he didn t happen to and i got off that time i gave mrs one of my best diamond and i felt i was still under an obligation to her i got up and strolled away just as a young man of very fashionable aspect approached the pair and entered into an animated conversation with them i wondered where mrs lived i wondered whether mrs was as one lady had said even better as a than mrs had been how could i find out at last i me of the simple expedient of asking my hostess who the ladies were a little fair woman in pale blue she said no in answer to my question oh yes yes that is lady � of you know dear little woman she is and he s such a brute would you like to know her well i should rather like to know her she s so very pretty i felt myself a bit of a h but i was duly to lady who was very gracious and very charming and who professed herself delighted to know me as she had taken great pleasure in my books her companion proved to be a mrs st m and she was quite as charming as lady we talked of various matters such things as are usually called topics of general interest and then i edged the conversation round to the subject of i was astonished to find that both ladies rose easily to the bait ah you are interested too in mrs said lady now mrs st here has just been telling me about a perfectly new who is the most marvellous creature in the world lady violet power goes to her for everything how everything ill the magic wheel well if she wants to take a house for instance she wouldn t take it without going to see what mrs had to say about it if she wants to have a bit of a flutter on the she goes by what mrs says she s absolutely her guide then yes in everything most society women have a guide of that kind are you going to this mrs oh yes i shall go to morrow as soon as i am out of bed i believe in catching them when they are fresh they are always able to tell you so much more than when they are now one thing i never i never go near a at a party it is the fashion to have good ladies sitting in tents or otherwise telling your guests their fortunes and misfortunes and when i give a party of course i have two or three just to give them an advertisement poor but i never go near them myself i like to catch them in the morning when they are fresh then you get properly told i shall go to mrs to morrow morning what do you have i oh i never had a in my life i said quickly i � i have only just found out about such things but i am awfully interested oh you are well now you come and lunch with me to morrow quite my husband s gone off to salmon fishing he s mad on salmon fishing i believe salmon fishing is like charity � it covers a multitude of sins i have got my own coming little mrs isn t she a wonder mrs st � now isn t she oh perfectly awful she tells you everything that ever you did and everything that ever you wanted to do but charming cried lady oh yes quite charming then you ll come mrs i should like to come very much her bright eyes wandered towards the door and she gave a jump as if � well as if she had seen a ghost oh my dear she said suddenly turning round do you see who that is that has just come in no who is it said mrs st it s the german chapter xi louis i looked eagerly up although i really at that time did not know what a was in the doorway was a tall pale young man very very tall very very pale in complexion he was excessively fair probably as a baby he had been white he had curious blue eyes a pale blue and yet they were intense in colour he was dressed and had an in his button hole what does he do i asked lady turned round with a 