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Updated: June 13, 2025
"You don't mean to say the Turnours have been out, and waiting?" "I do, but don't be so despairing. I told them I thought I'd better look the car over, and wasn't quite ready. That's always true, you know. A motor's like a pretty woman; never objects to being looked at. So they said 'damn, and strolled off to buy chocolates."
I evaded a direct answer by saying that I had a room; and was inwardly thankful that, evidently, the Turnours had not noticed me in the restaurant at luncheon, otherwise things might have been awkward. "Very well, you can keep the same one, then," went on her ladyship, "and let the hotel people know it's Sir Samuel who pays for it. To-morrow morning we leave, in our sixty-horse-power motor car.
Then, when Lady Turnour and Sir Samuel had washed their hands of me, and I was left in a strange hotel, practically without a sou unless the Turnours chose to be inconveniently generous, and packed me off with a ticket to Paris I should find it very difficult to escape from my Corn Plaster admirer. This time there would be no kind Lady Kilmarny to whom I could appeal.
"Well, that would be an adventure. You know I love adventures." "But I know the Turnours don't. And if " He didn't finish his sentence. Higher we mounted, until half France seemed to lie spread out before us, and a solitary sign-post with "Paris-Perpignans" suggested unbelievable distances.
I thought hard for a minute. Lady Kilmarny had said it would not be many weeks before the Turnours went to England. If not, she was as kind as she was queer, and would help me look further. So I replied that I would accept the fifty francs, and would do my best to please her ladyship. She did not express herself as gratified. "You can begin work this evening," she said.
And because it was because of me, I knocked at the Turnours' sitting-room door with a bold, brave knock, as if I thought myself their social equal. They had had tea, and were sitting about, looking graceful in the expectation of seeing Bertie and his French friend. It was a disappointment to her ladyship to see only me, and she showed it with a frown, but Sir Samuel looked up kindly, as usual.
"He isn't likely to take the slightest notice of his stepfather's wife's maid," said I, "especially as he's dying to marry the American heiress here." "Anyhow, be careful." "I shan't look at him if I can help it. And we shall be gone before long. I believe the Turnours' invitation, which their Bertie was bribed to ask for, is only for two or three days.
When one has joined the ranks of the lower classes, one might as well reap some advantages from the change! "What we'll do," said Mr. Dane, "is to look first at all the things the Turnours are sure to look at last. By that plan we shall avoid them, and as I know my way about Avignon pretty well, you may set your mind at rest."
By the lateness of the hour we judged that the Turnours must have visited the Cathedral before they "did" the Palace, so we went boldly on to Notre Dame des Doms, beloved of Charlemagne. No wonder, I said, that he had thought it worth restoring from the ruins Saracens had left!
They will pop out of your mouth when you least expect it. But it mattered little enough now, except that the sound of the name and the echo of it fluttering back to me made my tears feel boiling hot hotter than the punch which the Turnours must have finished by this time. "Jack! Jack!" I called again.
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