Then, without any seeming change, he brought the conversation gently round to his visit, and suavely said, "'My dear young miss, I have the so great pleasure because you are so much beloved.

That is much, my dear, even were there that which I do not see.

They told me you were down in the spirit, and that you were of a ghastly pale.

To them I say "Pouf!"' And he snapped his fingers at me and went on.

'But you and I shall show them how wrong they are.