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Now let's talk about something else. When did you see Tommy?" "A week ago. He is in town now." "I know. I shall see him to-morrow." "At Joyselle's?" "Yes." "Brigit you can see what a wreck I am. Tell me. Are you going to marry that boy?" "I am." "When?" "In October." "Then " She rose. "I am a model of patience, Gerald, but you have asked enough questions."
Joyselle's face was very white. "What do you mean? Do you mean that your love for me was a mere caprice, and that it has gone?" His agony was unconcealed, and as she gazed she smiled, for her own torture was nearly unbearable. "I shouldn't like to say it was only a caprice " She hesitated, and he sank into a chair and buried his face in his hands.
"Tommy is coming on wonderfully with his violin, isn't he?" pursued Carron. "Yes." "Does he come here often?" She looked up, frowning. "You know perfectly well that he has never been here," she returned shortly. "Do you like your tea strong?" "Yes, please, no milk. Well you must miss him." "And you know perfectly well that I see him twice a week at Joyselle's."
There was also a baby-grand piano, covered with music, and a huge grey parrot in a gilded and palatial cage. It was Joyselle's translation of an English gentleman's room, even to the engravings and etchings on the wall. One thing, however, the girl had never before seen.
Madame Joyselle, the flush dying from her fresh cheeks, bowed. "She is indeed. And now Théo, call Toinon we must go to the dining-room." Nobody else, even Brigit, who had never beheld that cheerless apartment, wished to leave the kitchen, but Madame Joyselle's will was in such matters law, and the little party was soon seated round the table upstairs. And the omelet was delicious.
"I say, Bicky, what happens to ambassadors who fail in their missions?" he asked, winking delightedly. Yellow Dog Papillon lay asleep on the Chesterfield in Joyselle's room.
She herself had made up her mind to marry Théo, and she had seen plainly that this was fitting and wise; yet Joyselle's acceptance of these facts stirred her to rebellion, and once more she protested against his voicing of her own determination. "You are quite right," she said coldly; "it is only a pity that we did not see all this before!" And in his turn he winced.
Joyselle's delight in the artistic timeliness of the speech found vent in his putting his arm round his companion's slim waist and giving her a hearty, paternal hug. Her whole face, in the darkness, quivered with amusement. She had never in her whole life been so thoroughly and satisfactorily amused.
Miss Letchworth, who had been three times to Paris for a week at a time, looked up from her embroidery. "Oh, Duchess! People of our class often drink it," she protested, the only tea she had ever consumed in Paris being that of her hotel or of Columbins, "don't they, mossoo?" Joyselle's eyes drew down at the corners and he gave his big moustache a martial, upward twist.
He had forgotten her; he had forgotten love; he was not even the Musician he was a Healer, a being miles above and beyond her and her weak human longing. Tommy's eyes had closed, and the low music went on and on. The room was now quite dark, save for the light that encircled Joyselle's head.
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