But these were not the sounds which for a moment had changed her face.
"I myself," she murmured, "am an example!" A woman who had risen to go sat down again.
"Do go on, Duchess!" she exclaimed.

"Anything in the nature of a personal confession is so fascinating, and you know you are such an enigma to all of us." "Am I ?" she answered, smiling.

"Then I am likely to remain so." "A perfectly obvious person like myself," the woman remarked, "is always fascinated by the unusual.

But if you are really not going to give yourself away, Duchess, I am afraid I must move on.

One hates to leave your beautifully cool rooms.