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Van Reinberg followed the direction of my eyes. She laughed shrilly, but she did not seem displeased. "If you Englishmen only made as good husbands as you do acquaintances," she said, "I should settle down in London with my girls and study matchmaking. I am afraid, though, that you have your drawbacks." "Tell me what they are," I begged, "and I will do my best to prove myself an exception."
Van Reinberg, who, however, was whispering to her husband, and declined to look. Then he half rose to his feet and addressed me. "Mr. Courage," he said, "this is a little private gathering between these friends of mine and myself, to discuss a private matter in which we are all much interested. Under these circumstances, I trust that you will not think it discourteous if I ask you to withdraw.
We walked and sat together, played shuffleboard, and in every way made the most of all those delightful opportunities of tete-a-tetes which a sea voyage affords. Mrs. Van Reinberg, for some reason or other, watched our intimacy with increasing satisfaction. Mr. de Valentin, on the other hand, though he concealed his feelings admirably, seemed to find it equally distasteful.
I realized then that the woman whom I had known was something of a fraud, a puppet hung out with the rags of a European manner, according to the study and observation of the shrewd, little lady who pulled the strings. It was Mrs. Van Reinberg of London and Paris whom I had met upon the steamer; it was Mrs.
Courage, that you have not quarrelled, and you did not know that she was going?" "I had no idea of it," I said, "and I am quite certain that we have not quarrelled." Mrs. Van Reinberg looked as though she found my statement hard to believe. "You had better go to your room," she suggested, "and see if there is not a note for you! She must have a reason for going.
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