[The Inheritors by Joseph Conrad]@TWC D-Link bookThe Inheritors CHAPTER SIX 20/34
She believes in me immensely.
I am such a real Granger, there never was a more typical one. And we shake our heads together over you." My bewilderment was infinite, but it stopped short of being unpleasant. "Might I call on my aunt ?" I asked.
"It wouldn't interfere--" "Oh, it wouldn't _interfere_," she said, "but we leave for Paris to-morrow.
We are very busy.
We--that is, my aunt; I am too young and too, too discreet--have a little salon where we hatch plots against half the regimes in Europe.
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