70/123 He thought, nevertheless, that he must lie for gallantry's sake, insisting that he remembered her well. I was accompanied by my husband and you never looked at me.... All your attentions on that trip were devoted to a very handsome widow from Brazil." She said this in Spanish, a smooth, sing-song Spanish learned in South America, to which her foreign accent contributed a certain childish charm. Then she added coquettishly: "I know you, Captain. |