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Mainwaring keep your picture in her
bedroom?"
I am glad Stenson happened to be out of the room. His absence
saved the flaying of my nasal organ. I explained that it was the
custom in England for ladies to collect the photographs of their
men friends, and use them misguidedly for purposes of decoration.
"But this," said Carlotta, opening out her arms in an exaggerated
way, "is such a big one."
"Ah, that," I answered, "is because I am very beautiful."
Carlotta shrieked with laughter. The exquisite comicality of the
jest occasioned bubbling comments of mirth during the rest of the
meal, and her original indiscreet question was happily forgotten.


CHAPTER X

l0th July.
Judith and I have had our day in the country. We know a wayside
station, on a certain line of railway, about an hour and a half
from town, where we can alight, find eggs and bacon at the
village inn and hayricks in a solitary meadow, and where we can
chew the cud of these delights with the cattle in well-wooded
pastures.


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