"I should like to know what the game is, too." Both Madame and the Colonel appeared to accept the statement and not the innuendo.

Madame placed the figures on the board.
Maurice strolled over to the table and aimlessly glanced through the Vienna illustrated weeklies.

He saw Franz Josef in characteristic poses, full-page engravings of the military maneuvers and reproductions of the notable paintings.

He picked up an issue dated June.

A portrait of the new Austrian ambassador to France attracted his attention.