When did he teach you that wicked, wicked word ?" I think Carlotta flushed as she regarded the point of her red slipper.
"I went for a walk and he met me at the corner and walked here by my side.

Was that wicked ?" "What would the excellent Hamdi Effendi have said to it ?" Woman-like she evaded my question.
"I hope Hamdi is dead.

Do you think so ?" "I hope not.

For if you behave in this naughty manner, I shall have to send you back to him." She had imperceptibly moved nearer my chair until she stood quite close to my side, so that as I spoke the last words I looked up into her face.
She put her arm about my shoulders.

It is one of her pretty, caressing ways.
"I will be good--very good," she said.
"You will have to," said I, leaning back my head.
She must have caught a relenting note in my voice; for what happened I feel even now a curious shame in noting down.