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Updated: May 27, 2025
Under the guidance of Madame de Trezac she had found a prettily furnished apartment in a not too inaccessible quarter, and in its light bright drawing-room she sat one June afternoon listening, with all the forbearance of which she was capable, to the counsels of her newly-acquired guide.
Good-night, my dear," he said, kissing her hand as he turned away. Undine kept this incident to herself: her wounded pride made her shrink from confessing it even to Madame de Trezac. She was sure Raymond would "come back"; Ralph always had, to the last.
We're out of everything, and the people who are having a good time are simply too busy to remember us. We're only asked to the things that are made up from visiting-lists." Madame de Trezac listened sympathetically, but did not suppress a candid answer. "It's not altogether that, my dear; Raymond's not a man his friends forget.
Madame de Trezac had been civil, effusive even, because for the moment she had been taken off her guard by finding Mrs. Marvell on terms of intimacy with the Princess Estradina and her mother. But the force of facts would reassert itself.
It's rather more, if you'll excuse my saying so, the fact of your being you personally in the wrong set." "The wrong set? Why, I'm in HIS set the one that thinks itself too good for all the others. That's what you've always told me when I've said it bored me." "Well, that's what I mean " Madame de Trezac took the plunge. "It's not a question of your being bored."
A few days earlier, Undine's hope of renewing such pleasures would have been clouded by the dread of leaving Madame de Trezac alone with the Duchess. But she had no longer any fear of Madame de Trezac.
She was spared the trouble of seeking one by the arrival, early the next morning, of Madame de Trezac, who, entering almost with the breakfast tray, mysteriously asked to be allowed to communicate something of importance.
Even when the period of tension was over, and Undine had been officially received into the family of her betrothed, Madame de Trezac did not at once surrender. She laughingly professed to have had enough of the proprieties, and declared herself bored by the social rites she had hitherto so piously performed.
Undine, as she grew older, had developed her mother's craving for a confidante, and Madame de Trezac had succeeded in that capacity to Mabel Lipscomb and Bertha Shallum. "Less fussy?" Madame de Trezac's long nose lengthened thoughtfully. "H'm are you sure that's a good sign?" Undine stared and laughed. "Oh, my dear, you're so quaint! Why, nobody's jealous any more." "No; that's the worst of it."
It was what Undine, in moments of discouragement, characterized as "her luck" that one of these should be the hated Miss Wincher of Potash Springs, who had now become the Marquise de Trezac. Undine knew that Chelles and his compatriots, however scandalized at her European companions, would be completely indifferent to Mrs.
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