Mademoiselle Flossie ventured to throw him a kiss.

Madame smiled inscrutably.
The door closed.

They heard him go downstairs.

Madame picked up his card and read aloud.
Sir George Duncombe, Risley Hall, Norfolk.
Grand Hotel, Paris.
"If one could only," Madame murmured, "tell him the truth, collect the money--and----" "And," Flossie murmured, half fearfully.
Monsieur le Baron smiled!.