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"Do, m'sieur! Do!" There was no time for further discussion, therefore I did as she requested, and a few moments later, with a dressing-case, which was all the baggage she had, she mounted into the car beside me, and we moved off northward to the capital. I offered her the fur rug, and she wrapped it about her knees with the air of one used to motoring.
Just then the carriage gave a violent lurch, as the express swung around a bend, and Diana, dropping everything she held, made a frantic clutch at the rack above her head, while her goods and chattels shot across the floor, her dressing-case sliding gaily along till its wild career was checked against the foot of the man in the corner.
He took in the details of her appearance and surroundings wonderful enough to him who had been brought up in a cottage, and to whom the ways and resources of luxury were all unknown. Every seat save the one which he occupied was covered with her belongings. On one was a half-opened dressing-case filled with gold-topped bottles and emitting a faint, delicate perfume.
There were signs of unpacking about the room-Flora's dressing-case on the table, and some dresses lying on the sofa and ottoman. Mary ran up to them eagerly, and exclaimed at the beautiful shot blue and white silk. "Paris fashions?" said Ethel carelessly. "Yes; but I don't parade my own dresses here," said Flora. "Whose are they then? Your commissions, Meta?" "No!" and Meta laughed heartily.
"Made a very good thing of it, upon my life. A dressing-case, not gold, you know, but silver-gilt, a dozen knives with blood-stone handles, and a little coffee-pot, with the imperial arms, not to speak of three hundred Naps in a green silk purse Lord! it reminds me of the Peninsula. Do you know those Prussians are mere barbarians, haven't a notion of civilized war.
"I carry my visiting-card in my hand, sir," the other replied, swinging his dressing-case around. "My name is John P. Dunster." The young man's expression was scarcely ingratiating. To a natural sullenness was added now the nervous distaste of one who approaches a disagreeable task. "I want, if I may, to ask you a favour," he continued.
There it was something my fingers longed for among the beautiful toys in the cabinet in my boudoir small and sharp like a long willow leaf in a silver sheath. I locked it in the drawer of my dressing-case. I was continually haunted with it and how I should use it. I fancied myself putting it under my pillow. But I never did. I never looked at it again.
Eleanor, the eldest, who as princess could only give a gold ring, when Duchesse de Bar brought as a Christmas-gift a leathern dressing-case, containing a comb, a mirror silver-gilt, and a silver bodkin, so much valued by the King that he kept them with him as long as he lived.
Behind stood a plainly dressed woman, evidently her maid, carrying a flat dressing-case. There was a brief colloquy between the three. It ended in dressing-case, a pile of books, a reading lamp, and a formidable array of hat-boxes, and milliner's parcels being placed upon the rack and vacant seats in my compartment, and immediately afterwards Mrs. Smith-Lessing herself entered.
Erwin, at last, "they were all Americans together, you know." "And what difference does that make?" demanded Mrs. Erwin, whirling from his image to the man again. "Why, of course, you know, it isn't as if they were English." Mrs. Erwin flung down three hair-pins upon her dressing-case, and visibly despaired.
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