Then she gilded away.

A moment later he was listening to her polite speeches as she leaned out of the coupe.

"My dinner was too wonderful," she said.
"Do make my compliments to that dear Robert and his wife.

Good luck to you, and don't rob us poor landowners of every penny we possess in life." The car was gone in the midst of his vague little response.

He watched the lights go flashing up the hillside, crawling around the hairpin corners, up until it seemed that they had reached the black clouds and were climbing into the heavens.