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According to her prognostications, I found Miss Murray in her favourite field just without the park; and, unfortunately, not alone; for the tall, stately figure of Mr. Hatfield was slowly sauntering by her side. Here was a poser for me. It was my duty to interrupt the tete-a- tete: but how was it to be done? Mr.
I am going to sit out on the terrace. Will you come, too? It will be quite warm so long as the sun lasts." They strolled away together, to make acquaintance in a quiet tete-a- tete, while once more interruption approached the library in the shape of Mollie, primed for battle.
They dawdled through the thronged hotel office, where other irresponsible pairs were coming and going under the admiring eyes of the hotel loungers, and they wandered up and down the waste parlours, and sat on tete-a- tetes just to try them, apparently; and Miss Gage verified in the mirrors the beauty which was reflected in all eyes.
These uniform days were the same in all places, and even during the journeys taken by their Majesties, who were thus never separated, except for a few minutes at a time. They passed their lives in one long tete-a- tete. When they travelled it was at the merest snail's pace, and they slept on the road, night after night, in houses prepared for them.
I believe I could number on the fingers of one hand all the special little tete-a- tete conversations that Min and I ever had together. This was not owing to any fault of mine, you may be sure; but was, entirely, the result of "circumstances," over which neither of us had "any control." "Society" was the cause of it all.
"We can't have far to go, and we can soon catch up the others, if we make a sprint for it. Go on, Margot. We'll be after you in no time." In the circumstances there was nothing else to be done, nor indeed, after a long morning spent in wandering about as a party, was Margot inclined to quarrel with the fate which provided an interesting tete-a- tete for the walk home.
Mademoiselle Schult, getting impatient, began to roll up yards and yards of crochet, and coughed, by way of a signal, but remembering how disagreeable it would have been to herself to be interrupted in a tete-a- tete with her apothecary, she thought it not worth while to disturb them in these last moments. M. de Nailles's orders had been that she was to sit in the atelier.
Such a tete-a- tete would have been altogether contrary to all rules in the more strictly regulated circles of Italian society. And it would have been all the more, and by no means the less contrary to rule in consequence of the position in which Ludovico and Paolina stood towards each other. But the world to which Paolina belonged lives under a different code in these matters.
She had seen more of him in the three days of his visit than any one else but Eleanor, but this was their first tete-a- tete. Hitherto, when Eleanor was busy Jim had gone on solitary tramps or sought the friendly shelter of his hotel. "Great," replied Jim, enthusiastically. "Harding College is all right. I'm mighty glad Eleanor wanted to stay on here."
I had not seen her since that occasion when her claims were brought into comparison with those of Ginevra Fanshawe, and had so signally prevailed; she had much to tell me of her travels in the interval. A most animated, rapid speaker was she in such a tete-a- tete, a most lively describer; yet with her artless diction and clear soft voice, she never seemed to speak too fast or to say too much.
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