The manager of the restaurant hurried toward the entrance and he heard the question repeated.
"Is Mr.Rosario here ?" "We have a table for him, madame, but he has not yet arrived," the _maitre d'hotel_ replied.

"If madame will allow me to show her the way!" Arnold rose to his feet with a little start.

Notwithstanding her fashionable outdoor clothes and thick veil, he recognized Mrs.
Weatherley at once as she swept into the room, following the _maitre d'hotel_.

She came up to him with slightly upraised eyebrows.

It was clear that his presence there was a surprise to her.
"I scarcely expected to see you again so soon," she remarked, giving him her fingers.