In fact, all you have to do is to keep your ears open." Mrs.Douglas had risen and was nervously watching Constance, who saw that she had made an impression and that all that was necessary was to follow it up.
"Now, for instance," added Constance quickly, "you say she is a friend of yours.

How did you meet her ?" Mrs.Douglas did not raise her eyes to Constance's now.

Yet she seemed to feel that Constance was different from other chance acquaintances, to feel a sort of confidence, and to want to meet frankness with frankness.
"One day I was with a friend of mine at the new Palais de Maxixe," she answered in a low voice as if making a confession.

"A woman in the dressing-room borrowed a cigarette.

You know they often do that.