"Your work, my dear Helda, has been excellent.

I commend you.

I think with fervour of the day when first we talked together, and the scheme presented itself to me.

Continue to play Aspasia in such a fashion to the young soldiers and sailors of this country, and your villa at Monte Carlo next year is assured." The woman shrugged her shoulders.
"I will not say that you are not generous," she declared, "for that would be untrue, but sometimes you forget that these young men have very little money, and the chief profit from their friendship, therefore, must come to us in other ways." "You want a larger allowance ?" Selingman asked slowly.
"Not at present, but I want to warn you that the time may come when I shall need more.

A salon in Pimlico, dear friend, is an expensive thing to maintain.