9/39 But somehow, though everything goes well in business--we seldom had so busy a time as during this last Humanitarian Congress of the Powers--all the diplomats came here--mostly the old ones, the old and respectable--oh we _all_ like respectability--yet I never 'ad such low spirits. My gals used to come in here and find me cryin' as often as not.... 'Comment, Madame,' they used to say, 'pourquoi pleurez vous? And not to any of your measly Hotels or village inns. Why I've got me _own_ country place and me _own_ auto. |