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She did not go back through the Wachners' garden; instead, she struck off to the left, on to a field path, which finally brought her to the main road. As she was passing the Pension Malfait the landlady came out to the gate. "Madame!" she cried out loudly, "I have had news of Madame Wolsky at last!
The only ornaments were a gilt clock on the mantelpiece, flanked with two sham Empire candelabra. The shutters were fastened closely, and the room was dreadfully hot and airless. Once more Sylvia wondered why the Wachners preferred to live in this cheerless way, with a servant who only came for a few hours each day, rather than at an hotel or boarding-house.
He told himself, and that very often, that the young Englishwoman, with her absurd, touching lack of worldly knowledge, had no business to be living in such a place as Lacville, wasting her money at the Baccarat tables, and knowing such queer people as were well, yes, even Anna Wolsky was queer Madame Wolsky and the Wachners!
When Bill Chester spoke as if he had authority over her, it always made her indignant, even angry. "Did I?" she said nervously. "Yes! You asked me if I had persuaded Madame Wolsky to leave Lacville. Well, now I ask you, in my turn, whether it has ever occurred to you that the Wachners know more of your Polish friend's departure than they admit?
Had it not been for the Wachners, these two days of dual solitude with Chester would have been dreary indeed, but Madame Wachner was their companion on more than one long excursion and wherever Madame Wachner went there reigned a kind of jollity and sense of cheer. Sylvia wondered if the Comte de Virieu was indeed coming back as he had said he would do.
Making a determined effort over what she could but suppose to be her nerves, she walked through into the Wachners' bed-room. It was very bare and singularly poorly furnished, at least to English eyes, but it was pleasantly cool after the drawing-room. She walked across to the window, and, drawing aside the muslin curtains, looked out.
Late one afternoon and they all four always met each afternoon at the Casino Madame Wachner suddenly invited Sylvia and Anna to come back to supper at the Châlet des Muguets. Anna was unwilling to accept the kindly invitation. It was clear that she did not wish to waste as much time away from the Casino as going to the Wachners' villa would involve.
Why, to-night she is spending the evening with those very people the Wachners, of whom you were speaking just now. I heard her arranging it with them this afternoon." He added, stiffly, "But I doubt if your impression as to these people is a right one. They seem to me a very respectable couple." Paul de Virieu shrugged his shoulders. He felt suddenly uneasy afraid he hardly knew of what.
She must ever remember gratefully how helpful Madame Wachner had been during the first few days she and Anna had been at Lacville, in showing them the little ways about the place, and in explaining to them all sorts of things about the Casino. And how kindly the Wachners had pressed Anna yesterday to have supper with them during Sylvia's absence in Paris!
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