She is but a child." "And Monsieur Delora himself ?" I asked.

"He comes here when he chooses?
He is not merely a sightseer ?" "No," Louis repeated, "he is not merely a sightseer!" "A privileged person," I remarked.
"He is a wonderful man," Louis answered calmly.

"He has travelled all over the world.

He knows a little of every capital, of every side of life,--perhaps," he added, "of the underneath side." "His niece is very beautiful," I remarked, looking at her thoughtfully.

"It seems almost a shame, does it not, to bring her into such a place as this ?" Louis smiled.
"If she were going to stay in Paris--yes!" he said.