CONDEMNED! To Burton, who was in those days an epicure in sensations, there was something almost ecstatic in the pleasure of that evening.

They dined at a little round table in the most desirable corner of the room--the professor and Edith, Mr.Bomford and himself.

The music of one of the most famous orchestras in Europe alternately swelled and died away, always with the background of that steady hum of cheerful conversation.
It was his first experience of a restaurant de luxe.

He looked about him in amazed wonder.

He had expected to find himself in a palace of gilt, to find the prevailing note of the place an unrestrained and inartistic gorgeousness.