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He grasped his new acquaintance by the hand. "Mr. Norgate and I are already old friends," he insisted. "We occupied the same coupe coming from Berlin and drank a bottle of wine together in the buffet." Mrs. Benedek threw back her head and laughed, a familiar gesture which her enemies declared was in some way associated with the dazzling whiteness of her teeth.
"If it weren't for for some of the people here, I'd never come inside the doors. It's a rotten way of spending one's time. You play, I suppose?" "Oh, yes, I play," Norgate admitted, "but I rather agree with you. How wonderfully well Mrs. Benedek is looking, isn't she!" Baring withdrew his admiring eyes from her vicinity. "Prettiest and smartest woman in London," he declared.
Towards the end of their third rubber, Mrs. Benedek, who was dummy, leaned across towards Norgate. "After all, perhaps you are better off here," she murmured in German. "There is nothing like this in Berlin." "One is at least nearer the things one cherishes," Norgate quoted in the same language. Selingman was playing the hand and held between his fingers a card already drawn to play.
The cooking there is tolerable, and they have some Rhine wine but you shall taste it." "Thank you," Norgate assented, "I shall be very pleased." They played three or four rubbers. Then Mrs. Benedek glanced at the clock. "I must go," she announced. "I am dining at eight o'clock." "Stay but for one moment," Selingman begged. "We will all take a little mixed vermouth together.
It may be that the partial disasters sustained by Benedek in Germany have determined the Austrian Government to order a more active system of war against Italy, or, as is generally believed here, that the organisation of the commissariat was not perfect enough with the army Archduke Albert commands to afford a more active and offensive action.
I wonder what his influence in the Cabinet really is." "As to that," Norgate observed, "I know no more than the man in the street." "Naturally," Mr. Selingman agreed. "I was thinking to myself." There was a brief silence. Norgate glanced around the room. "I don't see Mrs. Benedek here this afternoon," he remarked. Selingman shook his head solemnly.
Norgate is going to be in England for some time. Let us play bridge. I have to leave early to-night I am dining out and I should like to make a little money." They strolled into the bridge-room. Selingman hung behind with Norgate. "Soon," he suggested, "we must finish our talk, is it not so? Dine with me to-night. Mrs. Benedek has deserted me. We will eat at the Milan Grill.
"It is something more than gross lucre," a young man declared, who had just strolled up. "I believe that it is a good fat appointment. Rome, perhaps, where every one of you fellows wants to get to, nowadays." "Or perhaps," the Prince intervened, with a little bow, "Mrs. Benedek has promised to dine with you? She is generally responsible for the gloom or happiness of us poor males in this room."
Afterwards he said to me: 'You seem annoyed'; and I replied 'I am annoyed, and I am. I come in here to drink coffee and cool myself. Presently I will cut into another rubber, where that young man is not. Perhaps our friend Mrs. Benedek will be here. You and I and Mrs. Benedek, but not, if we can help it, the lady who smokes the small black cigars.
These alliances are most pleasing. Since I have taken up my residence in this country, I regard them with the utmost favour. They do much to cement the good feeling between Germany, Austria, and England, which is so desirable." "English people," Mrs. Benedek remarked, "will at least have the opportunity of judging Austrian women from the proper standpoint.
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