Love might accomplish what the other two had failed to do.

You know little of the ways of the world.

Do you know that this house party is scandalous, for all its innocence?
Do you know that Madame's name would be a byword were it known that we have been here more than two weeks, alone with two women?
Who but a woman that feels herself above convention would dare offer this affront to society?
Do you know why Madame the countess came?
Company for Madame?
No; she was to play make love to me to keep me out of the way.

Ass that I was, I never suspected till too late! Madame's name is not Sylvia Amerbach; it is--" The door opened unceremoniously and in walked the Colonel.
"Your voices are rather high, gentlemen," he said calmly, and sat down in an easy chair..