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"If you knew," she said, "how kind you've been not to try to spare me. No, don't bother. I'm not going to cry. Just give me a minute..." It was less than that before she asked, in a tone reassuringly steady, "Does father know, himself?" "He's been warned, but he's skeptical. Steinmetz says there's nothing surprising about that. It's his all but universal experience with men of his own profession.
As the Germans moved to the attack here, the French fire became heavy and destructive, so much so, indeed, as to cause General Von Steinmetz to order some cavalry belonging to the right wing to make a charge. Crossing the ravine before described, this body of horse swept up the slope beyond, the front ranks urged forward by the momentum from behind.
It was impossible to say whether she heard with comprehension or not. Paul went on: "There is nothing left, therefore, but to go and do good by stealth. I studied medicine with that view. Steinmetz has scraped and economized the working of the estate for the same purpose.
Maggie glanced toward the canoe. She drew a short, sharp breath, but she did not move. "Mademoiselle," said Steinmetz earnestly, "I am an old man, and in my time I have dabbled pretty deeply in trouble. But taking it all around, even my life has had its compensations.
She was sitting in a chair usually occupied by Steinmetz. There was a faint aroma of tobacco-smoke. The atmosphere of the room was manly and energetic. Paul showed her his simple stores of medicine the old coat saturated with disinfectants which had become the recognized outward sign of the Moscow doctor.
In the luxurious box it was easily enough arranged Etta and Paul together in front, De Chauxville and Maggie at the other corner of the box. "I have asked my friend Karl Steinmetz to come in during the evening," said Paul to Etta when they were seated. "He is anxious to make your acquaintance. He is my prime minister over in Russia." Etta smiled graciously.
De Chauxville counted back with his slim fingers on the table delightfully innocent. "Yes," he said, "the years seem to fly in coveys. Do you ever see any of our friends of that time you who are in Russia?" "Who were our friends of that time?" parried Steinmetz, polishing his glasses with a silk handkerchief. "My memory is a broken reed you remember?"
"It makes one feel very small," said Etta, turning to the breakfast-table "at no time a pleasant sensation. Do you know," she said, after a little pause, "I think it probable that I shall become very fond of Osterno, but I wish it was nearer to civilization." Paul looked pleased. Steinmetz had a queer expression on his face.
You are now included in his antipathy because you married madame." "I dare say," replied Paul carelessly. "But I am not afraid of Claude de Chauxville, or any other man." "I am," said Steinmetz. "He is up to some mischief. I was calling on the Countess Lanovitch in Petersburg when in walked Claude de Chauxville.
Or Doctor Steinmetz?" "Why, it's reasonable to suppose that Whitney understands my financial condition better than I do. I mean that. It's not a sneer. But what he and Hood don't allow for is that I've never tried to make money. They've no idea what my earning power would be if I were to turn to and make that a prime consideration. A year of it would take me out of the woods, I think."
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