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"He's furious that any one should offer anything. I thought when he found out what they were worth he might be tempted; but he'd rather see me starve than part with one of his grand-father's snuff-boxes." "Well, he knows now what the tapestries are worth. I offered more than Fleischhauer advised." "Yes; but you were in too much of a hurry." "I've got to be; I'm going back next week."
She had not expected so prompt a sequel to the dealer's visit, and she was vexed with him for writing to Raymond without consulting her. But she recognized Moffatt's high-handed way, and her fears faded in the great blaze of the sum he offered. Her husband was still looking at her. "It was Fleischhauer who brought a man down to see the tapestries one day when I was away at Beaune?"
Moffatt made no allusion to his visit to Saint Desert; but when the party had re-grouped itself about coffee and liqueurs on the terrace, he bent over to ask confidentially: "What about my tapestries?" She replied in the same tone: "You oughtn't to have let Fleischhauer write that letter. My husband's furious." He seemed honestly surprised. "Why? Didn't I offer him enough?"
He had known, then everything was known at Saint Desert! She wavered a moment and then gave him back his look. "Yes it was Fleischhauer; and I sent for him." "You sent for him?" He spoke in a voice so veiled and repressed that he seemed to be consciously saving it for some premeditated outbreak.
Fleischhauer to come down some time and tell us what they're worth ... and he seems to have misunderstood ... to have thought we meant to sell them." She addressed herself more pointedly to the dealer. "I'm sorry you've had the trip for nothing." Mr. Fleischhauer inclined himself eloquently. "It is not nothing to have seen such beauty." Moffatt gave him a humorous look. "I'd hate to see Mr.
Fleischhauer, who begged to transmit to the Marquis de Chelles an offer for his Boucher tapestries from a client prepared to pay the large sum named on condition that it was accepted before his approaching departure for America. "What does it mean?" Raymond continued, as she did not speak. "How should I know? It's a lot of money," she stammered, shaken out of her self-possession.
Fleischhauer miss his train " "I shall not miss it: I miss nothing," said Mr. Fleischhauer. He bowed to Undine and backed toward the door. "See here," Moffatt called to him as he reached the threshold, "you let the motor take you to the station, and charge up this trip to me." When the door closed he turned to Undine with a laugh. "Well, this beats the band.
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