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So much, however, was certain, that her husband had begun in a very small way, and had received his title at the accession of King Alfonso, in return for financial services which had materially helped toward the re-establishment of the throne. The Countess Cuerbo could now give points as to pride of station to the bluest-blooded grandee.
Wilhelm thought no more of this episode, and had almost forgotten that it had ever occurred, when one day soon afterward a friend of Pilar's, the Countess Cuerbo, came to call. She was the wife of a fabulously rich Spanish banker, whose house, racing-stables, picture gallery, carriages, and dinners were among the marvels of Paris.
"Yes, for it is a humiliating, and beside which, a totally unnecessary invention, and lays me open to the worst construction." "And who has taken upon themselves to retail it to you? That Cuerbo, I suppose?" "It was not the Countess Cuerbo not that it matters if the actual fact is true." "Forgive me, Wilhelm," she pleaded, "I thought to act for the best.
Surely ladies of our rank have no need to be particular like any little grocer's wife." That was Pilar's own creed, and before any other audience she would smilingly have agreed with the Countess Cuerbo. But she pictured to herself what an effect this tone would have upon Wilhelm's German, middle-class sense of propriety, which she knew so well, and was indignant at her visitor's cool cynicism.
Her tactlessness had been the cause of many a disaster, but she remained incorrigible, in spite of repeated and severe snubbings and even bitter insults. No sooner had she entered the room than Wilhelm received a sample of her peculiar style. Anne announced the Countess Cuerbo.
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