49/60 Now and always you have my utter sympathy and understanding." And this is the woman of whose thousand virtues I dared to speak in flippant jest. It was just before the case came on at the Cour d'Assises. She had finished luncheon in her private room and was sitting over her coffee. She wore the black blouse and skirt with which I have not yet been able to grow familiar, as it robbed her of the peculiar fascinating quality which I have tried to suggest by the word pantherine. |