"Just tell us exactly what's happened since Mademoiselle arrived here," he said.

"Let's get an accurate notion of all her doings.
She came--when ?" "She got here about the beginning of yesterday afternoon," answered the manager, who did not appear to be too well pleased about this disturbance of his usual proceedings.

"She has always had this suite of rooms whenever she has sung in Edinburgh before, and it was understood that whenever she wrote or wired for them we were to arrange for a grand piano, properly tuned to concert-pitch, to be put in for her.

She wrote for the suite over a fortnight ago from Russia, and, of course, we had everything in readiness for her.

She turned up, as I say, yesterday, alone--she explained something about her maid having been obliged to leave her on arrival in England, and since she came she's had the services of one of our smartest chambermaids, whom she herself picked out after carefully inspecting a whole dozen of them.