18/21 I have no doubt you have told them all over Paris, but I don't care what you tell in Paris--Paris is n't so easily shocked. Captain Lovelock does n't repeat what I tell him; I set him up as a model of discretion. I have told him some pretty bad things, and he has liked them so much he has kept them all to himself. I say my bad things to Captain Lovelock, and my good things to other people; he does n't know the difference and he is perfectly content." "Other people as well often don't know the difference," said Gordon, gravely. "You ought always to tell us which are which." Blanche gave her husband a little impertinent stare. |