I might, or I might not, write a line of dignified remonstrance to the duchess, but I should make no attempt to see her; and I should most certainly go.

Moreover, it would be a long while before I accepted any of her harum-scarum invitations again.
"Elsa" indeed! Somehow I could not say it with quite the indignant scorn which I desired should be manifest in my tone.

I have never been able to be indignant with the duchess; although I have laughed at her.

Now I could be, and was, indignant with Marie Delhasse; though, in truth, her difficult position pleaded excuses for her treatment of me which the duchess could not advance.
As the clock of the church struck ten I walked downstairs from my room, wearing a light short overcoat tightly buttoned up.

I informed the waiter that I was likely to be late, secured the loan of a latchkey, and left my good friend under the evident impression that I was about to range the shores of the bay in love-lorn solitude.