The others have expensive apartments, and come year after year.

You see my position, Mademoiselle?
I am sorry." So the little tired lady had to go.

That was how the story went.

It was not known what became of her, but it was known that the English people in the Kurhaus tried to persuade her to come to them.

But she had lost heart, and left in distress.
This could not have happened in the Kurhaus, where all were received on equal terms, those about whom nothing was known, and those about whom too much was known.