And when she confessed her bets to him and told him how she had put ten louis on Lusignan and five on Valerio II, he shrugged his shoulders, as who should say that women did stupid things whatever happened.

His action surprised her; she was quite at sea.
Just then the field grew more animated than before.

Open-air lunches were arranged in the interval before the Grand Prix.

There was much eating and more drinking in all directions, on the grass, on the high seats of the four-in-hands and mail coaches, in the victorias, the broughams, the landaus.

There was a universal spread of cold viands and a fine disorderly display of champagne baskets which footmen kept handing down out of the coach boots.