I'm not afraid to stay on; the summer here must be amusing in a wild--if it isn't a tame--way of its own; the place at no time more picturesque.

I think I shall like it.
And then," he benevolently smiled for her, "there will be always you." "Oh," she objected, "it won't be as a part of the picturesqueness that I shall stay, for I shall be the plainest thing about you.

You may, you see, at any rate," she pursued, "have nobody else.

Madame de Vionnet may very well be going off, mayn't she ?--and Mr.Newsome by the same stroke: unless indeed you've had an assurance from them to the contrary.

So that if your idea's to stay for them"-- it was her duty to suggest it--"you may be left in the lurch.