He has adopted you without reservation on my poor description." His frankly admiring look brought a blush to her cheeks; but she only laughed a little constrainedly, and murmured that she would try to be as complacent as the occasion demanded.

Events were certainly in league to lend her wedding night a remarkably close semblance to the real thing.

And as Curtis descended to the foyer to summon their waiting guests he decided then and there not to mar the festivities by any explanations concerning Jean de Courtois's second time on earth.
Steingall had practically settled the question by confining the Frenchman to his room for the remainder of the night.

Why interfere with an admirable arrangement?
Let the wretched intriguer be forgotten till the morrow, at any rate!.