"A man of the Chinese world! He must be very interesting." "I have an idea that he brought home a fortune," said Felix.
"That is always interesting.

Is he young, good-looking, clever ?" "He is less than forty; he has a baldish head; he says witty things.

I rather think," added the young man, "that he will admire the Baroness Munster." "It is very possible," said this lady.

Her brother never knew how she would take things; but shortly afterwards she declared that he had made a very pretty description and that on the morrow she would go and see for herself.
They mounted, accordingly, into a great barouche--a vehicle as to which the Baroness found nothing to criticise but the price that was asked for it and the fact that the coachman wore a straw hat.

(At Silberstadt Madame Munster had had liveries of yellow and crimson.) They drove into the country, and the Baroness, leaning far back and swaying her lace-fringed parasol, looked to right and to left and surveyed the way-side objects.