Tell me, Capitaine Rotherby, will you think me very stupid in the country if I can do nothing but swim a little and play tennis very badly ?" "Rather not!" I answered.

"There is the motor, you know.

I could take you for some delightful drives.

We should find plenty to do, I am sure, and I promise you that if only you will be as amiable as you are here I shall not find any fault." "You will like to have me there ?" she asked.
Her question came with the simplicity of a child.

She laughed softly with pleasure when I leaned over the table and whispered to her,-- "Better than anything else in the world!" "I am not sure, Capitaine Rotherby," she said, looking at me out of her great eyes, "whether you are behaving nicely." "If I am not," I declared, "it is your fault! You should not look so charming." She laughed softly.
"And you should not make such speeches to a poor little foreign girl," she said, "who knows so little of your London ways." Louis stood suddenly before us.