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When she did, he seemed to be avoiding her eyes again, and she saw the old look of pain in his face, though he was talking about the timetables and the turbine channel-boat. 'You must come over to London and see me before your début, my dear, Madame Bonanni said, breaking off the discussion of trains and turning to Margaret. 'That is, if Schreiermeyer will let you, she added.
'Can you make potato dumplings, and are you in search of a husband? 'It is the other way, said Schreiermeyer, 'for the husbands are always after her. Talking of marriage, that girl who died the other night was to have been married to Mr. Van Torp yesterday, and they were to have sailed with you this morning.
'I haven't the slightest idea what you are driving at, said Margaret. 'I have made an agreement with you, and unless I lose my voice during the next month I shall sing wherever you expect me to. 'All right, because if you don't, I'll make you dance from here to Jerusalem, answered Schreiermeyer, glaring again.
I will make you stick to it, whether you like it or not. Understand? Margaret drew herself up, and looked at him coldly. 'If I carry out my contract, she said, 'it will be because I signed my name to it, not because you can force me to do anything against my will. Schreiermeyer turned a little pale and glared through his glasses. 'Ah, you are proud, eh?
He smelt the smoke after the brougham had passed, and he recognised the fact that it was superlatively fragrant. He turned back again in a few moments and saw that three men were just coming out of Madame Bonanni s house. One was Schreiermeyer, whom he knew, and one looked like a poor musician. The third was the Minister of Fine Arts, whom he did not know but recognised.
She knew quite well that it was not at all an impossibility. To please her, and with the expectation of marrying her in six months, Logotheti would cheerfully pay the large forfeit that would be due to Schreiermeyer if she broke her London engagement at the height of the season, and the Greek financier would produce all the ready money necessary for getting together an opera company.
One, in bad French, was from Schreiermeyer, to say that he had changed his mind, that she was to make her début in Rigoletto instead of in Faust, and that a rehearsal of the former opera was called for the next day but one at eleven o'clock, at which, by kindness of the director of the Opéra, she would be allowed to sing the part of Gilda.
'They were abominably clumsy, Margaret said, still very much annoyed. 'They almost hurt me, and somebody had the impertinence to double-knot the handkerchief after I had arranged it! I'll send for Schreiermeyer at once, I think! If I hadn't solid nerves a thing like that might ruin my début! The maid smiled discreetly.
'Lyric? he inquired, suddenly, but with extreme softness. 'Lyric, repeated Madame De Rosa, leaning forward a little, and fanning herself violently. Another pause. 'Thank God! exclaimed Schreiermeyer, without moving, but so very devoutly that Margaret stared at him in surprise. Madame De Rosa knew that this also was an excellent sign; she looked at Margaret and nodded energetically.
But she would have smiled at the thought that an exhibition of heartlessness, or the most utter lack of manners, could have made her wish to run away from any other man. Her life had accustomed her to people who had no more feeling than Schreiermeyer, and no better manners than Pompeo Stromboli.
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