Notwithstanding his message, he did not arrive at the house until eleven o'clock, barely an hour ago." "And kept you waiting all that time ?" "That is nothing.

Let me explain something before I conclude.

Before the war I had an Austrian maid, a woman whom I turned out of the house, and whom my husband at that time did not dare to ask me to reinstate.

He had not then spent quite the whole of my fortune.

Besides an undoubted intrigue with my husband, I heard afterwards that she only escaped imprisonment as a spy by leaving the country hurriedly just before war was declared.