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"Of course I wouldn't 'give you away, as you call it. But I'm not sure I want you to tell me. I have faith in Ivor. I'd rather not hear stories behind his back." "Oh, very well, then, go to the Duchess's to-morrow," I snapped, "and wear your prettiest frock to please Ivor, when just about that time he'll be arriving in Paris to keep a very particular engagement with Maxine de Renzie."
She will kill herself if disaster comes; and though suicide is usually the last resource of a coward, Mademoiselle de Renzie is no coward, and I'm inclined to think I should come to the same resolve in her place." "Tell me what I am to do," said Ivor, evidently moved by the Foreign Secretary's strange words, and his intense earnestness.
It was natural I should come to a ball given by my wife's sister, whose husband is my cousin. No one knows of this interview of ours: I believe I may make my mind easy on that score, at least. And it is equally natural that you should start on business or pleasure of your own, for Paris to-morrow morning; also that you should meet Mademoiselle de Renzie there."
On the contrary, he grew a little more cheerful. "I can see that du Laurier's being in the French Foreign Office might make it rather awkward for Miss de Renzie if she if she's been rather too helpful to us," he said. "Exactly. And thereby hangs a tale a sensational and even romantic tale almost complicated enough for the plot of a novel.
This was one of the first things I heard when Di and I came over from America to visit Lord and Lady Mountstuart. And of course there was the story about him and Maxine de Renzie. Everyone was talking of it when we first arrived in London. My heart beat very fast as I guided him into the room which Lady Mountstuart has given Di and me for our special den.
"He might be obliged to go to Paris, suddenly, for some business reason, without meaning to call on Maxine de Renzie in which case he'd probably write me. But at the station, I shall ask him straight out that is, if he's there, as I'm sure he won't be whether he intends to see Mademoiselle de Renzie. If he says no, I'll believe him. If he says yes " "You'll tell him all is over between you?"
If you should lose the packet I'm going to give you, I prophesy that in twenty-four hours the world would be empty of Maxine de Renzie: for the circumstances surrounding her in this transaction are peculiar, the most peculiar I've ever been entangled in, perhaps, in rather a varied experience; and they intimately concern her fiancé, the Vicomte Raoul du Laurier "
"It's not much to be brave for a man you love, is it? And now I'm going to give the thing to you, because I trust you, Mademoiselle de Renzie. I know you'll pay. And I hope, oh, I feel, it won't hurt you as you think it will." Then, as if it had been some ordinary paper, she whipped from a long pocket of a coat she wore, the treaty. She put it into my hand. I felt it, I clasped it.
I must trust to luck trust to luck," I said to myself, desperately, as Marianne dressed me. "By and by I'll think it all out." But after that my part gave me no more time to think. I was not Maxine de Renzie, but Princess Hélène of Hungaria, whose tragic fate was even more sure and swift than miserable Maxine's.
I had said that I didn't care to see Maxine de Renzie: yet here I was on the way to see her, and here was Di discovering me in the act of going to see, her. Of course I could lie; and I suppose some men, even men of honour, would think it justifiable as well as wise to lie in such a case, when explanations were forbidden. But I couldn't lie to a girl I loved as I love Diana Forrest.
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