Is it likely that he could have any business whatever to transact for the Government in Monte Carlo?
What I mean is, could there possibly be anything to keep him in this place which for political reasons he couldn't tell me about ?" "I can answer your question finally so far as regards any Government business," Mr.Draconmeyer assured her.

"Your husband's Party is in Opposition.

As a keen politician, he would not be likely to interest himself in the work of his rival." "You are quite sure," she persisted, "you are quite sure that he could not have a mission of any sort ?--that there isn't any meeting of diplomatists here in which he might be interested ?" Mr.Draconmeyer smiled with the air of one listening to a child's prattle.
"If I were not sure that you are in earnest--!" he began.

"However, I will just answer your question.

Nothing of the sort is possible.
Besides, people don't come to Monte Carlo for serious affairs, you know." Her face hardened a little.
"I suppose," she said, "that you are quite sure of what you told me the other evening about this young singer--Felicia Roche ?" "I should not allude to a matter of that sort," he declared, "unless I had satisfied myself as to the facts.