When she saw quite fit she would doubtless inform him as to what she was doing and where she might be found.

He smiled again at the thought of the considerations which Elfrida would put into the balance against the pleasure of seeing him.

They were not humiliating; he was content to swing high on the other side indefinitely; but he admitted to himself that she had taken a pleasure out of Paris for him, and went back to his studio missing it.

He went on missing it for quite two days, at the end of which he received an impetuous visit--excessively impetuous considering the delay--from Nadie Palicsky.

In its course Mademoiselle Palicsky declared herself robbed and wronged by "_cette incomprise d'Americaine_," whom she loved--but _loved_, did he understand?
No, it was not probable that he understood--what did a man know of love?
As much perhaps as that flame--Kendal permitted himself the luxury of an open fire.