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The evening party was beginning to thin, but in a side drawing-room a fine Austrian band was playing Strauss, and some of the intimates of the house were dancing. Ashe at once perceived his wife. She was dancing with a clever Cambridge lad, a cousin of Madeleine Alcot's, who had long been one of her adorers.
"She says she will, but I couldn't make her understand anything I wanted. She is off her head! They all are. By-the-way, did you hear of Madeleine Alcot's. telegram to Worth?" "No." Kitty laughed a laugh musical but malicious. Mrs. Alcot, married in the same month as herself, had been her companion and rival from the beginning.
Then, five minutes later, in the supper-room, Lady Tranmore had run across Madeleine Alcot's husband, who had given her in passing the whole story of the frustrated expedition Mrs. Alcot's chill, and the despatch of Cliffe to Hill Street. "Horrid bore to have to put it off! Hope he got there in time to stop Lady Kitty getting ready. Oh, thanks, Madeleine's all right."
Cliffe saw the look, and remembered that Mrs. Alcot's husband, a distinguished treasury official, had been for years the intimate friend of a very noble and beautiful woman, herself unhappily married. There was no scandal in the matter, though much talk. Mrs.
Darrell shrugged his shoulders. "These domesticities should be kept out of sight, don't you think?" Madeleine Alcot looked at him curiously. "Did you have a pleasant walk?" she said. Darrell made a little face. "The great man was condescending." Madeleine Alcot's face was still interrogative. "A touch of the folie des grandeurs?" "Well, who escapes it?" said Darrell, bitterly.
We frivolous people are a good deal cleverer than you think." The languid arrogance of the lady's manner was not at all unbecoming. Darrell made an inclination. "No need to remind me, madam!" A recent exhibition at an artistic club of Mrs. Alcot's sketches had made a considerable mark. "Very soon you will leave us poor professionals no room to live."
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