CHAPTER IV

"Which of them is it?" asked Longueville of his friend, after they had bidden good-night to the three ladies and to Captain Lovelock, who went off to begin, as he said, the evening. They stood, when they had turned away from the door of Mrs. Vivian's lodgings, in the little, rough-paved German street.

"Which of them is what?" Gordon asked, staring at his companion.

"Oh, come," said Longueville, "you are not going to begin to play at modesty at this hour! Did n't you write to me that you had been making violent love?"

"Violent? No."

"The more shame to you! Has your love-making been feeble?"

His friend looked at him a moment rather soberly.

"I suppose you thought it a queer document--that letter I wrote you."

"I thought it characteristic," said Longueville smiling.

"Is n't that the same thing?"

"Not in the least. I have never thought you a man of oddities." Gordon stood there looking at him with a serious eye, half appealing, half questioning; but at these last words he glanced away. Even a very modest man may wince a little at hearing himself denied the distinction of a few variations from the common type. Longueville made this reflection, and it struck him, also, that his companion was in a graver mood than he had expected; though why, after all, should he have been in a state of exhilaration? "Your letter was a very natural, interesting one," Bernard added.

"Well, you see," said Gordon, facing his companion again, "I have been a good deal preoccupied."

Answer this series of questions:

1. who ask to come to them ?
2. who was he talking to ?
3. did someone bid good morning ?
4. to how many ladies ?
5. were they making sweet love ?
6. what kind of love ?
7. whos quarters did they leave from ?
8. on what street ?
9. was it a smooth street ?
10. what kind ?
11. how did the friend look at him ?
12. for how long ?
13. what could be the same thing ?
14. what did he think it was ?
15. querr what ?
16. how was gordan looking at the person ?
17. anything else ?
18. anymore ?
19. was his letter a boring one ?
20. what was it ?
1. Longueville
2. Gordon
3. good-night
4. three
5. no
6. feeble
7. Mrs. Vivian's
8. German
9. no
10. rough
11. soberly
12. a moment
13. that letter
14. queer
15. document
16. serious
17. half appealing
18. half questioning
19. no
20. interesting