Cora Sinclair, who is just behind me in the chorus, gets bouquets every night, and simply chooses with whom she should go out to supper." Laverick looked grave.
"You are not envying her ?" he asked.
"Not in the least, as long as I too am taken out sometimes." Laverick smiled and sat on the arm of her chair.
"Miss Zoe," he said, "I have come because you told me to, just to prove, you see, that I am not in the toils of Mademoiselle Idiale.
But do you know that it is half past one?
I must not stay here any longer." She sighed once more.
"You are right," she admitted, "but it is so lonely.

I have never been here without May and her mother.

I have never slept alone in the house before the other night.

If I had known that they were going away, I should never have dared to come here." "It is too bad," he declared.

"Couldn't you get one of the other girls to stay with you ?" She shook her head.
"There are one or two whom I would like to have," she said, "but they are all living either at home or with relatives.