7/15 It's the most popular pastime in Paris, to walk into the Seine. But why," ended Olivetta with a spiteful burst,--"why couldn't she have amused herself in her own clothes? I didn't dare deny the report, for that would have been to expose you. And I didn't dare cable to you that it was all a mistake and that I was all right, for that would have been just as bad. Perhaps I might have acted differently, but I--well, I ran away. |