"Well ?" She laid her fingers upon his arm and drew him into a less crowded part of the room.
"Dicky," she confessed, "I don't seem to have had a bit of luck.

The Comtesse d'Hausson, who lives at the Villa Rosa, knows them and showed me from the window the Villa Mimosa, where they live, but she would tell me absolutely nothing about them.

The villa is the finest in Monte Carlo, and has always been taken before by some one of note.

She declares that they do not mix in the society of the place, but she admits that she has heard a rumour that Grex is only an assumed name." "I begin to believe that myself," he said doggedly.

"Hunterleys knows who they are and won't tell me.