She thought it very probable that he was a British nobleman, a younger son, very wild, of a ducal family; and she had her own theories as to why he had entered the service of the Rasselyer-Browns.

To be quite candid about it, she expected that the Philippine chauffeur meant to elope with her, and every time he drove her from a dinner or a dance she sat back luxuriously, wishing and expecting the elopement to begin.
* * * * * But for the time being the interest of Dulphemia, as of everybody else that was anybody at all, centred round Mr.Yahi-Bahi and the new cult of Boohooism.
After the visit of Mrs.Rasselyer-Brown a great number of ladies, also in motors, drove down to the house of Mr.Yahi-Bahi.

And all of them, whether they saw Mr.Yahi-Bahi himself or his Bengalee assistant, Mr.
Ram Spudd, came back delighted.
"Such exquisite tact!" said one.

"Such delicacy! As I was about to go I laid a five dollar gold piece on the edge of the little table.

Mr.
Spudd scarcely seemed to see it.