15/23 That was a very pretty trick that I played on the most noble marquis at Granada. Well, I owed him a long score, and I have paid him off in full. I should like to have seen his exalted countenance when he surveyed the features of his bride, the waiting-woman, and knew that the mistress was safe away with another man. The nephew of the king, who would like himself to be king some day, married to an English waiting-woman! Good, very good, dear Inez. I think that the matter may possibly be managed, provided that the money is all right, for, as you know, I do not work for nothing. |