A trim-looking French maid presented herself.

She addressed her mistress in voluble French.

A coiffeur and a manicurist were waiting in the next apartment; it was time that Madame habited herself.

The professor listened to these announcements with an air of half-admiring wonder.
"I suppose I must be going," he said, rising to his feet.

"There is just one thing I should like to ask you, Elizabeth, if I may, before I go." "Well ?" "Who was the young man whom I met here just now ?" "Why do you ask that ?" she demanded.
"I really do not know," her father replied, thoughtfully, "except that his appearance seemed a little singular.