But I retire from the discussion," the Cavaliere added.

"I have no wish to provoke you to attempt to prove to me that I am wrong.

You are already excited." "No more than is natural to a man who in an hour or so is to dance the cotillon with Miss Light." "The cotillon?
has she promised ?" Roderick patted the air with a grand confidence.

"You 'll see!" His gesture might almost have been taken to mean that the state of his relations with Miss Light was such that they quite dispensed with vain formalities.
The Cavaliere gave an exaggerated shrug.

"You make a great many mourners!" "He has made one already!" Rowland murmured to himself.