It was unfortunate that she had chosen that moment to look away and could not see, therefore, the light which glowed in his eyes.
"Violet," he assured her earnestly, "there is nothing in the world I should like so much.

I would beg you to have your trunks packed this morning, but unfortunately I cannot leave Monte Carlo just now." "Cannot leave Monte Carlo ?" she repeated derisively.

"Why, my dear man, you are a fish out of water here! You don't gamble, you do nothing but moon about and go to the Opera and worry about your silly politics.

What on earth do you mean when you say that you cannot leave Monte Carlo ?" "I mean just what I say," he replied.

"I cannot leave Monte Carlo for several days, at any rate." She looked at him blankly, a little incredulously.
"You have talked like this before, Henry," she said, "and it is all too absurd.