Count Boris Beljaski, intimate friend and traveling companion of the grand duke, would appear in the uniform of the imperial guard....

The Baroness Reinstadt was hurrying from San Diego, in her automobile....

As a winter resort, Santa Barbara was, as usual, eclipsing Florida, etc., ...

Blakely and I read the paper together; we laughed over it till we cried.
"It would be lots funnier if it wasn't my mother who was making such a holy show of herself," Blakely said.

"Do you know, my dear--" He was silent for a moment.