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"Yes, she told me to bring you to her as soon as I should have explained to you the whole affair. Come now." They went up the stairs together, and they hardly spoke a word. And when they reached the cedar parlour Denzil let Verisschenzko go in in front of him. "I have brought Stepan to you," he told Amaryllis. "I am going to leave you to talk now."
Denzil drank down his champagne, and then he made Verisschenzko understand in a few words the Russian's imagination filled in the details. He lit a cigarette between the course and puffed rings of smoke. "So poor John devised this plan, and yet he loves her he must indeed be obsessed by the family!"
She felt that it was now advisable to become cajoling; also there was something in the face of Verisschenzko and his fierceness which aroused renewed passion in her it was absurd to waste time in quarrelling with him when in an hour Stanislass might be coming in, so she went over behind his chair and smoothed back his thick dark hair. "You know that I adore you, darling Brute!"
Verisschenzko did not answer, and Amaryllis wondered if he agreed with John! They had to pass along a corridor to reach the staircase, upon the landing of which they had seen Sir John and Madame Boleski leaning over the balustrade, and when they got there they had moved on out of sight, so Verisschenzko, bowing, left Amaryllis with Lady de la Paule.
Verisschenzko was depressed, his country was not yet giving him the opportunity to fulfil his hopes, and he fretted that he must direct things from so far. They sat in a quiet corner of the Berkeley and talked in a desultory fashion all through the hors d'ouvres and the soup. "I am sick of things, Denzil," Verisschenzko said at last. "I feel inclined to end it all sometimes."
And the shabby looking porte-cochere gave no evidence of the old Louis XV. mansion within, converted now into a series of offices, all but the top flooring looking on to the gardens of the Ministere. Verisschenzko had taken it for its situation and its isolation, and had converted it into a thing of great beauty of panelling and rare pictures and the most comfortable chairs.
They talked for a while of casual things, and then Verisschenzko said: "Some relations of yours are here Sir John Ardayre and his particularly attractive bride. Shall we eat what I had ordered for Collette, or have you other fancies after the soup?" Denzil paid only attention to the first part of the speech he looked surprised and interested. "John Ardayre here!
Then her thoughts flew to Verisschenzko; he had told her that circumstances in his country might require his frequent presence in England for the next few months. She would see him again. What would he tell her to do now? Conquer emotion and look at things with common sense.
Verisschenzko was writing and just glanced up while he murmured Napoleon's famous order to Mademoiselle George but Harietta Boleski pushed out her full underlip and sat down in a deep armchair. "No not this evening, I have only a moment. I have merely come, Stepan, you darling, to tell you that I have something interesting to say."
Verisschenzko knew that he had alarmed her sufficiently, so he sat down in his chair again and lit a cigarette calmly then he sniffed the air. "Your mongrel friend uses the same perfume as Stanislass' mistress!" "Stanislass' mistress?" she had forgotten for the moment. "Yes don't you remember we burnt his scented handkerchief the last time we met, because we did not like her taste in perfumes?"
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