You may be sure," she added; and she put out her hand to the Englishman, who took it half shyly, half impetuously.

"And now go and dance!" she said.
"Oh yes, I feel awfully like dancing!" he answered.

"I shall go and get tipsy." And he walked away with a gloomy guffaw.
"What has happened between you ?" Newman asked.
"I can't tell you--now," said Madame de Cintre.

"Nothing that need make you unhappy." "Has the little Englishman been trying to make love to you ?" She hesitated, and then she uttered a grave "No! he's a very honest little fellow." "But you are agitated.

Something is the matter." "Nothing, I repeat, that need make you unhappy.