I imagined she was annoyed because he always conversed with me in a language she did not understand." "Then I shall avoid Chinese," he laughed.
"Marcelle----" Again she hesitated.

She was positively dismayed by consciousness of the imminent disclosure, yet too well-bred even to appear to be withholding confidences.
"You have won Marcelle's golden opinion already," she said.

"But let us talk of something else." For the moment they were alone, and she glanced at the watch on her wrist.
"Have you made any plans ?" she inquired, and her voice was low, yet sufficiently composed.
"For the future ?" "Yes." "When Marcelle arrives, I am going to my hotel for some baggage.

You, I suggest, are going to bed." "You will return ?" "Within the hour--if I am alive." "And to-morrow ?" "To-morrow, may it please your ladyship, we breakfast together at nine o'clock." "Your plan, then, is mainly composed of eating and sleeping ?" "What else--our policy is one of drifting." "You are extraordinarily good to me, Mr.Curtis." "It is 'Jack' in the compact." She sighed.
"Alas, this compact reads only one way.

It means that you give and I receive.