Do come, and bring Mr.Tudor with you.' 'As he has not to attend from ten till four, he could come and take lessons too,' said Lactimel, who, now that she was no longer a hanger-on of Gertrude's, could afford to have her little revenge.
'That would be delightful,' said Clem.

'Mr.Charles Tudor does come in sometimes at twelve o'clock, and I think he does it almost as well as Victoire.' Gertrude, however, would go neither to the rehearsals nor to the finished performance; and as Mrs.Val's men had by this time been induced to leave the beershop, the whole party went away, leaving Gertrude to her meditations..