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The servant stared uncertainly at them. His mistress had only been gone a few hours, and the flat was still warm with her presence and authority. She wouldn't, he well knew, have permitted co-respondents to be about the place if she had been there, but on the other hand she wasn't there. Mr. Sack was in sole possession now. Nobody knew where Mrs. Sack was.
Obsessed by his idea, the lift-boy immediately stepped out of his lift, approached the servant, introduced his passengers to him by saying, "Young ladies to see Mr. Sack," took a step closer, and whispered in his ear, but perfectly audibly to the twins who, however, regarded it as some expression peculiarly American and were left unmoved by it, "The co-respondents."
The murmur of their voices, uttering names of co-respondents, was faintly heard now and then as they passed up and down the tiny formal paths. Esmé Amarinth sank down into a chair by Lady Locke and sighed heavily. "What is the matter?" she asked. "You have a beautiful soul," he said softly, "and I have a beautiful soul too. Why should there not be a sympathy between us?
"They do say that once Captain Thorpe was fearfully jealous of him and people wonder that he wasn't among the co-respondents." The word "co-respondent" filled her with self-gratulation even though she only whispered it. "Co-respondents?" said Robin. They both began to whisper at once quite shrilly in their haste. They knew Mademoiselle might return at any moment.
"I'll be hanged if I do. What are you driving at?" "At the fact that you have finally concluded to cancel the crooked deals with wait, and I'll give you the names of the co-respondents" and he drew a packet of neatly docketed letters from his pocket. "Hold on a minute," protested the traffic manager; "you're getting in rather too deep for me. Will you let me see those letters?"
The two co-respondents, Hadi Bey and Aristide Dumeny of the French Embassy in Constantinople, were in court, sitting not far from Dion, to whom Mrs. Chetwinde, less vague than, but quite as self-possessed as, usual, pointed them out. Both were young men. Hadi Bey, who of course wore the fez, was a fine specimen of the smart, alert, cosmopolitan and cultivated Turk of modern days.
"The great divorce case, you know! The Thorpe divorce case the papers are so full of. We get the under housemaid to bring it to us after Mademoiselle has done with it. It's so exciting! Haven't you been reading it? Oh!" "No, I haven't," answered Robin. "And I don't know about co-respondents, but, if they are anything horrid, I daresay he WAS one of them."
Her husband, Councilor to the British Embassy at Constantinople, charged her with misconduct, and had cited two co-respondents, Hadi Bey, a Turkish officer, and Aristide Dumeny, a French diplomat, both apparently men of intellect and of highly cultivated tastes, and both slightly younger than Mrs. Clarke.
Clarke's husband was accredited to the British Embassy at Constantinople; that the scandal about her was connected with that city and with its neighborhood Therapia, Prinkipo, and other near places, that both the co-respondents named in the suit lived there. Whichever way the case went, surely Constantinople must be very disagreeable to Mrs. Clarke from now onwards.
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