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It is a lovely afternoon. Will you attempt it, Madame Valtesi?" "No, thank you. I think I must have been constructed, like Providence, with a view to sitting down. Whoever thinks of the Deity as standing? I will stay at home and read the last number of 'The Yellow Disaster. I want to see Mr. Aubrey Beardsley's idea of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
He walked with an ample softness into the little hall, and passed out through the French windows of the drawing room into the shadowy garden. On the lawn he found Lady Locke sitting alone, sipping her coffee in a basket chair. Madame Valtesi and Mrs. Windsor had strolled into the scented rose garden to discuss the inner details of a forthcoming divorce case.
Do they invariably go about in tubs as well?" "I suppose very often. These carts are always called governess carts." Madame Valtesi nodded enigmatically. "I am glad I have never had to be a governess," said Lady Locke thoughtfully. "From a worldly point of view, I suppose I have been born under a lucky star."
Take some more of those walnuts. Their rich mahogany colour reminds me of the background of a picture by Velasquez." Jimmy took some more with wondering acquiescence, and Amarinth leaned back negligently peeling a peach, and smiling as if, having begun to smile, he had fallen into a reverie and forgotten to stop. Madame Valtesi was a little bored.
"If they married more and drank less, I don't fancy their morals would suffer much," Madame Valtesi remarked with exceeding dryness, looking at Mr. Smith's budding tonsure through her tortoise-shell eyeglass. "The monastic life is very beautiful," said Lord Reggie. "I always find when I go to a monastery, that the monks give me very excellent wine.
I heard you promising him a carnation for to-morrow. You mustn't think me rude, but, please, don't give him one." Lord Reggie looked rather surprised. "I am afraid he will be disappointed," he said. "I cannot help that. And he will have forgotten it in five minutes. Children are as volatile as as " "As lovers," said Madame Valtesi, who was smoking a cigarette in a chair by the window.
The two tall footmen, more rigidly supercilious in their powdered hair than ever, were already arranging the ecstatic and amazed little choir boys in their seats. Windsor took her seat, with Mr. Smith, who had just arrived, Madame Valtesi, and Lady Locke. Lord Reggie and Esmé Amarinth sat among the boys at the ends of the two sides of the horse-shoe. Tommy was on Lord Reggie's right hand.
"Then how exquisitely right some women have been whom Society has hounded out of its good graces," Madame Valtesi remarked. "Yes," said Reggie. "And how exquisitely happy in their rectitude." "But not in their punishment," said Mrs. Windsor. "I think it is so silly to give people the chance of whipping you for what they do themselves."
That is why I want to talk about it. Vivacious ignorance is so artistic." "It is too common to be that," said Madame Valtesi. "Ignorant people are always vivacious, just as really clever men never wear spectacles. Wearing spectacles is the most played-out pose I know. I wonder the Germans still keep it up." "A nation that keeps up their army would keep up anything," said Esmé.
She had a curious face, with a long rather Jewish nose, and a thin-lipped mouth, a face wrinkled about the small eyes, above which was pasted a thick fringe of light brown hair covered with a visible "invisible" net. "Madame Valtesi!" exclaimed Mrs. Windsor. "You have come in person to give me your answer about my week? That is charming. Are you coming out into the desert with us?
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