"I am so glad that you came and I hope that we can make it pleasant for you.

I will try and send you in to dinner with some one very charming." She laughed at him understandingly as his lips parted and closed again without speech.

Then she turned away to welcome some other guests, who were at that moment announced.

Arnold stood in the background for a few minutes.

Presently she came back to him.
"Do you know any one here ?" she asked.
"No one," he answered.
She dropped her voice almost to a whisper.