His wife will see to that.

Who the pretty girl beside him is I do not know.

But the more or less young man on the other side of her, talking to her with an air of intimacy a little excessive in a public place, is Mario Escobar.

He is a Spaniard, and has the skin-deep politeness of his race.

He is engaged in some sort of business, frequents some sort of society into which he is invited by the women, and he is not very popular amongst men.