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Updated: June 6, 2025
"Perhaps you will admit," he questioned loftily, "that there are decencies to be observed even by the free and independent? It is not decent for you to travel alone. If you mean a single word of what you say, why are n't you accompanied by the Baronessa?" "The Baronessa fatigues me," Susanna answered gently. "And I exasperate her and try her patience cruelly.
"You came out in the rain just as you were, and you ran I heard you running, behind me. But but of course it's because you're kind-hearted. You would have done just the same for anybody. For the Contessa " "Not for the Baronessa, anyhow," said I. "I should have stopped for a mackintosh and even goloshes, had her safety been hanging in the balance."
We have had such stupid adventures, and we have been so bored." "We" were evidently the handsome, slightly moustached women of thirty-five, and the thin, darkly dour man of fifty who were with the Contessa in the carriage; and a moment later she had introduced me to the Baron and Baronessa di Nivoli. I echoed the name with some interest.
"You shan't," said I. With this, the Contessa beckoned from a distance, with news that she was going home. We followed, the Boy and I, allowing her to walk far ahead, with her triumphant aëronaut, the Baron and Baronessa, radiant with satisfaction in the success of their plot, arm in arm between the two couples.
You said yesterday you wanted to go to Aix, as you had never been; and we planned an expedition by the mule-path up Mont Revard." "I know. But but would you visit the Contessa?" "We might amuse ourselves. She would be well chaperoned, no doubt by the Baronessa. There's a brother of the Baron's in the background. Probably he'll turn up at Aix.
"But really, are you not immensely flattered at the reception you had?" "Yes." "You did not look at all interested in the public at the time," said she, "and that Roman nose of yours very nearly turned up in disdain of the applause, I thought. I wonder what you were thinking of all the while." "Can you wonder, baronessa?"
The Baron is arranging about our rooms, and there is sure to be a misunderstanding of some sort, as we had engaged for last night and did not come. The Baronessa? Oh, never mind; she had better listen to her husband. She is my friend, and is soon to be my guest, but she has got upon my nerves to-day."
But cosa vuole? It's all in the day's work." Then her voice modulated, and became confidential and exultant. "I 'm going to have such a delicious plunge. See to-night I have put on pearls, and diamonds, and rings, that the Baronessa would never let me wear.
But as he offered Susanna his hand, to help her aboard, she stepped quickly to one side, and said, with a charming indicative inclination of the head, "The Baronessa." The precedence, of course, was rightfully her own. How like her, and how handsome of her, thought the fond old man, thus to waive it in favour of her senior. So he transferred his attention to the Baroness.
And I 've got a whole bagful of books, to read in the train Anatole France, and Shakespeare, and Gyp, and Pierre Loti, and Molière, and Max Beerbohm, and everybody: all the books the Baronessa would have died a thousand deaths rather than let me look at.
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