2/18 "In you, mademoiselle," he added in a tone yet lower, "I find the woman and the artist divorced. That is a vast advantage--an immense source of power. I am growing more certain of you; you are not merely cleverly eccentric as I thought. You have finished that--I wish to take it downstairs to show the men. It will not be jeered at, I promise you." "_Cher maitre!_ You mean it ?" "But certainly!" The girl handed him the study with a look of almost doglike gratitude in her narrow gray eyes. |