19/24 "So she's engaged to marry him!" "Yes. Do you know him ?" "I have friends who do. He's in the French Foreign Office, though they say he's more at home in the hunting field, or writing plays--" "Which don't get produced. But they will get produced some day, for I believe he's an extremely clever fellow in his way--in everything except the diplomatic 'trade' which his father would have him take up, and got him into, through Heaven knows what influence. |