Where are you going to stake your money ?" "I think I shall begin with number twenty-nine," she laughed.
* * * * * They lunched with Richard and his wife, a few days later, at the Casino at Cannes.

The change in the two young people was most impressive.
Fedora had lost the dignified aloofness of Monte Carlo.

She seemed as though she had found her girlhood.

She was brilliantly, supremely happy.
Richard, on the other hand, was more serious.

He took Hunterleys on one side as they waited for the cars.
"We are on our way to Biarritz," he said, "by easy stages.