11/28 "Heavens, what a funny room! Why, I thought mine was the limit, but it's a palace beside this. You been here long ?" "Since yesterday; take the chair, please; I am used to the bed--no, really, I don't mind in the least. It is rather funny, but then I haven't always lived at the Ritz-Carlton, so I don't mind." "Huh! for the matter of that no more have I, but believe me, there would be some howl if they ever gave me a room like this--even in Haskell. I know your name; it's Stella Donovan--well, mine is Celeste La Rue." "A very pretty name; rather unusual. Are you French ?" The other laughed, crossing her feet carelessly, and extracting a cigarette case from a hand-bag. |