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Fortunately, she met no one on the stairs except one astonished page, and arrived in the outer corridor breathless with excitement and emotion. Count Roumovski saw her through the door of the hall, and hastened to meet her. "There is not a moment to be lost," she said, as he got to her side. "Go to the place you went before under the trees," he whispered hurriedly in return.
Then the automobile drew up by the trees, at perhaps two hundred yards from the hotel, near the baths of Diocletian. "If you will get out here, it will be best," Count Roumovski told her respectfully, "and walk along on the inner side. I will then drive to the door of the hotel, as usual."
"I totally disagree with you," Eustace Medlicott answered angrily, "when men and women make promises to one another they should have wills strong enough to keep them." "For what sensible reason?" Count Roumovski asked. "In a case where the happiness of both is involved, and where no damage has been incurred by either " Mr.
Stella did not speak, she was altogether too full of emotion to trust herself to words just yet. They had turned into the Corso by now, and, as ever, it appeared as though it were a holiday, so thronged with pedestrians was the whole thoroughfare. Count Roumovski seemed quite unconcerned, but Miss Rawson shrank back into her corner, a new fear in her heart.
Sasha Roumovski rose suddenly. "Come and sit here beside me again, heart of mine," he commanded with imperious love, and indicated the stiff Louis XIV sofa. "I must explain everything to you, it would seem."
"Ivan has not warned us that she is thinking of stirring," Count Roumovski said. "I told him to, and he will let us know in plenty of time; you surely do not breakfast until half-past twelve, do you?" "Ivan? who is Ivan?" Stella asked. "He is a servant of mine who does what he is bid," her companion answered. "To have peace to enjoy oneself one must calculate and arrange for events.
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